- June 20, 2017Book
Ask the Brains, Part 1: Experts Reveal 55 Mysteries of the Mind
- People behave in strange ways. We sometimes giggle when someone falls down, swear we've been to places we haven't or continue believing in something despite scientific evidence to the contrary...
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- March 1, 2001Health
Cleaning Alzheimer's Plaques
- Kate Wong
- June 1, 2007Mind & Brain
Growing Brains
- Mariette DiChristina
- The Early Years
- 10.1038/scientificamerican0607-1sp
- July 19, 2017Neuroscience
What Goes On in Our Brains When We Are in Love?
- Romantic love involves a series of complex changes in the brain’s reward system that make us crave the object of our affection
- Xiaomeng Xu and Ariana Tart-Zelvin
- September 1, 2015Mind & Brain
Scientific American MIND Reviews The Superhuman Mind
- Reviews and recommendations from Scientific American MIND
- Andrea Alfano
- Scientific American Mind Volume 26, Issue 5
- 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0915-68b
- Originally published as "Remarkable Brains" in Scientific American Mind Volume 26, Issue 5
- May 1, 2013Biology
Forgetting Is Harder for Older Brains
- Adults hang on to useless information, which impedes learning
- Ian Chant
- Scientific American Mind Volume 24, Issue 2
- 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0513-8a
- March 25, 2019Neuroscience
Tech's Brain Effect: It's Complicated
- We don't yet know what the immersion in technology does to our brains, but one neuroscientist says the answer is likely to be that there's good, there's bad, and it's complex.
- Steve Mirsky
- June 6, 2013Mind & Brain
The Quirk of a High IQ
- It seems that those with high IQs have a beneficial quirk in their ability to perceive a moving scene. Christie Nicholson
- July 23, 2019Biology
For Ants, the Sky’s the Compass
- Computer modeling revealed that insects with a celestial compass can likely determine direction down to just a couple degrees of error. Christopher Intagliata reports.
- Christopher Intagliata
- April 1, 2008Mind & Brain
Great Expectations
- Mariette DiChristina
- April/May 2008
- 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0408-1
- Originally published as "From the Editor" in April/May 2008
- September 13, 2019Neuroscience
Lab-Grown Human Mini Brains Show Brainy Activity
- As the little structures grow, their constituents specialize into different types of brain cells, begin to form connections and emit brain waves. They could be useful models for development and neurological conditions...
- Susanne Bard
- December 1, 2005Mind & Brain
Get the Picture
- Mariette DiChristina
- December 2005
- 10.1038/scientificamericanmind1205-1
- Originally published as "From the Editor" in December 2005
- September 1, 2009Mind & Brain
Are Our Big Brains the Reason Newborns Can't Walk?
- John Bock, an anthropologist at California State University, Fullerton, provides a reply
- The Editors
- September / October 2009
- 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0909-74
- Originally published as "Ask the Brains" in September / October 2009
- March 1, 2010Mind & Brain
Readers Respond to "Rational and Irrational Thought"--And More...
- Letters to the editor about the November/December 2009 issue of Scientific American MIND
- March / April 2010
- 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0310-4
- Originally published as "November/December 2009 Issue" in March / April 2010
- March 11, 2015Mind & Brain
Background Music Jams Memory in Older Adults
- People of all ages find background sound distracting, but noise appears to impede memory formation in older people. Erika Beras reports
- Erika Beras
- January 30, 2018Behavior
How Responsible are Killers with Brain Damage?
- Cases of criminal behavior after brain injury raise profound questions about the neuroscience of free will.
- Micah Johnson
- April 13, 2020Behavior
5 Surprising Facts About Rejection Sensitivity
- Rejection stings for everyone, but for highly rejection-sensitive people, it can be a real showstopper
- Jade Wu Savvy Psychologist
- June 1, 2008Mind & Brain
Your Brain on Diabetes
- More signs that insulin ills set off neurodegenerative conditions
- Melinda Wenner
- June 2008
- 10.1038/scientificamerican0608-26
- August 19, 2015Behavior
Your Brain on Porn and Other Sexual Images
- Is porn bad for the brain? The Savvy Psychologist explains 3 studies that looked at how we process porn and other sexualized images, and reveals the potential effects on the brain—and on how we see our fellow men and women...
- Savvy Psychologist Ellen Hendriksen
- March 17, 2016Neuroscience
Memories Retrieved in Mutant "Alzheimer's" Mice
- A new study suggests that patients with Alzheimer's disease can still form memories, raising hopes of new treatments
- Sara Reardon and Nature magazine