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May 1, 2019Neuroscience
The Roots of Human Aggression: Experiments in humans and animals have started to identify how violent behaviors begin in the brain; R. Douglas Fields; Scientific American Volume 320, Issue 5; 10.1038/scientificamerican0519-64

August 16, 2011Mind
City Living and your Mental Health: Is city living driving you crazy?: I recently moved to a big city from a series of smaller, suburban cities and towns. I love my new city dwelling, the opportunities that are available to see the arts, the large universities and hospitals which allow for scientific collaboration, the cool, fun bars, and of course, the fact that I can get Ethiopian food freakin' DELIVERED at 2am if I should so choose...; Scicurious

February 1, 2006Mind
The Devil You Know: JR Minkel; February 2006; 10.1038/scientificamerican0206-29b

April 1, 2007Mind
Addicted to Food?: What drives people, against their better judgment, to eat more food than they need? Scientists look to the brain for answers; Oliver Grimm; April/May 2007; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0407-36

April 1, 2002
Emotion, Memory and the Brain: The neural routes underlying the formation of memories about primitive emotional experiences, such as fear, have been traced; Joseph E. LeDoux; 10.1038/scientificamerican0402-62sp

May 18, 2010Mind
Panic Attacks as a Problem of pH: Study casts new light on the brain mechanisms behind recurrent bouts of intense anxiety; Richard Maddock

November 1, 2009Mind
Why the #! Do We Swear?: Expletives may not only be an expression of agony but also a means to alleviate it; Frederik Joelving; November / December 2009; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind1109-16b

September 1, 2010
You Must Remember This: What Makes Something Memorable?: What stays with us, and what we forget, depends in part on how well our neurons keep time; Christof Koch; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0910-16; Originally published as "Consciousness Redux: You Must Remember This" in

August 17, 2011Mind
How the Brain Remembers 9/11: When the first plane hit, I was literally shaken out of the shower. What was that? I remember the precise look on my roommate's face when I walked into the living room of the tiny tenement-style apartment we shared on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, about a mile from the World Trade Center: a mix of bewilderment, disbelief, and only a touch of the sarcastic smirk he typically wore...; Greg Boustead

October 2, 2007Health
Squelching the dark past: The mechanics of memory suppression: _____________________ Introduction by David Dobbs
Editor, Mind Matters Bad memories can seem to have their own power, as if they are independent agents infecting our thoughts and moods...; David Dobbs

November 1, 2011
City Living Can Heighten Social Stress: Urban dwellers are more likely to have overactive emotional centers in the brain; Michele Solis; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind1111-9a; Originally published as "The Urban Brain" in

September 3, 2009Mind
Can fearful memories be erased?: In the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , Joel and Clementine's relationship ends so sourly that the couple elects to have their mutual memories swept away via a non-surgical procedure called "targeted memory erasure." No such tool actually exists...; Lynne Peeples

May 1, 2007The Sciences
Mama's boys are braver: Maternal presence as neural confidence builder: Welcome to

Mind Matters Sciam.com's "seminar blog" on the sciences of mind and brain. Each week, top researchers in neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry explain and discuss the research driving their fields...; David Dobbs

October 24, 2016
Liar, Liar: How the Brain Adapts to Telling Tall Tales: Neural responses decline after repeated acts of dishonesty, research suggests; Simon Makin

June 26, 2012Mind
How the Brain Views Race: Research on the link between implicit race preference and brain activity could be used to prevent unintended consequences of race bias; Mo Costandi and Nature magazine

July 12, 2009Mind
Why the #$%! Do We Swear? For Pain Relief: Dropping the F-bomb or other expletives may not only be an expression of agony, but also a means to alleviate it; Frederik Joelving

March 26, 2013Mind
Emotional Needs in Teens May Spur the Growth of New Brain Cells: Until recent decades, the brain was viewed as static. The accepted scientific view was that after early childhood few changes occurred in the connections between neurons and no new brain cells appeared...; Jon Lieff

July 17, 2015Mind
Why Nobody Intervened in the July 4 Metro Murder: Criticism of witnesses’ inaction reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the neuroscience of how the brain responds to sudden threats; R. Douglas Fields

September 1, 2014Neurological Health
Does Marijuana Harm the Brain?: Simon Makin; Scientific American Mind Volume 25, Issue 5; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0914-17a

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