Departments

• Gene Target Beats Oil Remedy
• Divining the Right Drug
• Chimps Talk with Their Hands
• Belief in the Brain
• Accents Trump Skin Color
• Be Sad and Succeed
• Accentuating the Negative
• Abuse and Attachment
• Monkeys Get the Creeps, Too
• Why We Return to Bad Habits
• Multimedia Memory Boost
• How Fantasies Affect Focus
• A Female Viagra?
• Are Antidepressants Safe for Pregnant Women?

Readers Respond to "Rational and Irrational Thought"--And More...

• Why is talking with gestures easier than talking without them?
• What causes chest pain when feelings are hurt?

• MIND Reviews: The Shaking Woman
• MIND Reviews: The Other Brain
• MIND Reviews: Temple Grandin
• MIND Reviews: The Perfect Swarm

• The Ethical Dog

• Extraordinary Perception

• Aristotle's Error

• Playing the Body Electric

• Living with Schizophrenia

• Calendar: MIND events in March and April

• Convince Me

 

Features

The Power to Persuade
How masters of "supersuasion" can change your mind
By Kevin Dutton

A Sensory Fix for Problems in School
Certain learning disabilities are linked to problems of perception, when the brain misinterprets sensory input. Targeted exercises can help correct these difficulties
By Burkhart Fischer

The Pluses of Getting It Wrong
New research makes the case for difficult tests in schools and suggests an unusual technique that anyone can use to learn
By Henry L. Roediger III and Bridgid Finn

Busting Big Myths in Popular Psychology
Pop psych lore is a bewildering mix of fact and fallacy. Here we shatter some widely held misconceptions about the mind and human behavior
By Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, John Ruscio and Barry L. Beyerstein

The Brain and the Written Word
A cognitive neuroscientist explains his quest to understand how reading works in the mind—and how the brain is changed by education and culture
By Gareth Cook

New Hope for Battling Brain Cancer
Studies suggest that stem cells sustain deadly tumors in the brain—and that aiming at these insidious culprits could lead to a cure
By Gregory Foltz

Are You Mentally Healthy?
Here's a new screening tool that might set your mind at ease—or get you chatting with a therapist
By Robert Epstein