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August 16, 2014Mind & Brain
Childhood Stress Decreases Size of Brain Regions: Children who experience neglect, abuse and/or poverty can have smaller amygdalas and hippocampuses, brain regions involved in emotion and memory, compared with kids raised in nurturing environments...; Christie Nicholson

August 1, 2002The Sciences
Cannabis-like Brain Chemical Blocks Out Bad Memories: Sarah Graham

January 1, 2008Mind & Brain
Psychiatric Disorders from No Sleep?: Nikhil Swaminathan; January 2008; 10.1038/scientificamerican0108-32b

March 1, 2012Mind & Brain
Claims & Caveats: Scientific American Mind Volume 23, Issue 1; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0312-9b; Originally published as "Claims & Caveats" in Scientific American Mind Volume 23, Issue 1

December 6, 2004Mind & Brain
Brain Asymmetries in Chimps Resemble Those of Humans: Sarah Graham

May 1, 2008Mind & Brain
The Brain Is Not Modular: What fMRI Really Tells Us: Metaphors, modules and brain-scan pseudoscience; Michael Shermer; May 2008

December 15, 2008
What does Barack Obama's brain look like?: Barack Obama still has a month before his inauguration as the 44th U.S. president, but there have already been a number of attempts to get inside his brain.; Karen Schrock

July 1, 2016Behavior
What Is Loss Aversion?: Russell A. Poldrack, a professor of psychology at Stanford University, replies; Scientific American Mind Volume 27, Issue 4; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0716-72b

October 23, 2007Mind & Brain
Can a Lack of Sleep Cause Psychiatric Disorders?: Study shows that sleep deprivation leads to a rewiring of the brain's emotional circuitry; Nikhil Swaminathan

May 1, 2005Mind & Brain
His Brain, Her Brain: It turns out that male and female brains differ quite a bit in architecture and activity. Research into these variations could lead to sex-specific treatments for disorders such as depression and schizophrenia...; Larry Cahill; May 2005; 10.1038/scientificamerican0505-40

October 27, 2008Mind & Brain
Factoring Fear: What Scares Us and Why: Scientists scan the brain in an attempt to explain the hows and whys of being afraid--very afraid; Lou Dzierzak

November 1, 2015Neuroscience
How the Brain Purges Bad Memories: A brain circuit has been isolated that allows us to forget fear, suggesting a treatment target for anxiety disorders; Bret Stetka; Scientific American Mind Volume 26, Issue 6; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind1115-11

February 10, 2010Mind & Brain
Catching the Brain at Work: Scientists found a way to detect the order of activity in two regions of the brain using fMRI. And they found that the brain can register something as highly emotional before it actually processes what that something is...

May 29, 2007Environment
How Does Catnip Work Its Magic on Cats?

December 14, 2010Mind & Brain
Scientists Gain Insights into How to Erase Pathological Fear: Scientists close in on the process that records -- and erases -- memories of terror; Jason Castro

December 6, 2011
Are Psychopaths "Brain Damaged"?: Pathway from the prefrontal cortex to the amygdala We all have a ghoulish fascination with the Hannibal Lecters of this world. That’s because many of the most-publicized stories about psychopaths can be quickly banged into a Hollywood script...; Gary Stix

October 1, 2012The Sciences
His Brain, her Brain: It turns out that male and female brains differ quite a bit in architecture and activity. Research into these variations could lead to sex-specific treatments for disorders such as depression and schizophrenia...; Larry Cahill; His Brain, Her Brain; 10.1038/scientificamericanbrain0512-4

September 4, 2014Mind & Brain
Could Deep Brain Stimulation Fortify Soldiers' Minds?: As many as 20 percent of war veterans return from combat in Afghanistan and Iraq with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or major depression, according to a 2008 report from the RAND Corporation...; S. Matthew Liao

June 1, 2005Mind & Brain
New View on Autism: Jonathan Beard; June 2005; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0605-8a

July 20, 2010Mind & Brain
Snakes in the MRI Machine: A Study of Courage: What courage looks like in the brain--in real time; Daniela Schiller

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