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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

March 10, 2016Mind
Getting Past the "Shotgun" Approach to Treating Mental Illness: We treat depression by trying different drugs until we find one that works—a highly imprecise approach to treating the most sophisticated of organs, the brain; Daniel Barron

Visual Cortexes: Brain-Art Competition Shows Off Neuroscience's Aesthetic Side
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SEXES VIA HIERARCHICAL EDGE BUNDLING: This winning entry in the human "connectome," or brain connections, category is based on fMRI data gathered from the brains of more than 1,000 people.Major brain regions are depicted in the outer circle, and specific locations (for example, "Amygdala L" is the left amygdala) are listed in the inner circle.In brain locations where women have increased connectivity compared with men, the color shifts toward red...; John McGonigle/The Neuro Bureau

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

August 17, 2011
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

April 1, 2002Mind
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; The Hidden Mind; 10.1038/scientificamerican0402-62sp

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

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

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

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, 2010Mind
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; September / October 2010; 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0910-16; Originally published as "Consciousness Redux: You Must Remember This" in September / October 2010

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, 2015
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

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

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

October 2, 2007
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

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

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

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

The Roots of Human Aggression