Biology The worst of multiple sclerosis can be avoided or delayed with early treatment January 19, 2019
Biology Your brain pays more attention to objects it knows are small — no matter how large they seem January 9, 2019
Mind & Brain Artificial Intelligence detects Alzheimer’s six years before human diagnosis January 8, 2019
Neurology Pain, the self-fulfilling prophecy: When we expect something to hurt, it does February 22, 2019
Biology Your left hemisphere can veto the right one into submission — but they generally play nice November 6, 2018
Mind & Brain The brain replays memories as you sleep to make sure you don’t lose them October 12, 2018
Discoveries Dopamine is the key allowing our brains to change beliefs — short-term ones, at least October 10, 2018
Mind & Brain Our brains don’t like having too many options to pick from because they’re lazy October 3, 2018
Mind & Brain The right video game can help children develop empathy and better emotional control August 14, 2018
Mind & Brain Egotists’ brains just don’t care about the future, affecting their choices in life April 27, 2018
Mind & Brain Alcohol makes you aggressive by impairing the polite parts of your brain February 12, 2018
Mind & Brain Pictures of snakes and spiders stress out babies: fear of these critters is deeply rooted October 24, 2017
Interviews Mouse Mazes and Cutting Edge Science: A Discussion with Harvard’s Shuhan He October 18, 2017
Mind & Brain Trying to resist a yawn makes you more likely to yawn — because your motor cortex is wired that way September 1, 2017
Mind & Brain Learning and exploration might drive teenagers’ risky, bad decisions, not poor impulse control August 21, 2017
Mind & Brain Scientists poke at the root of our need for personal space — using fruit flies August 10, 2017
Neurology Dendrites generate electrical spikes too — human brain computing capacity might be 100 times larger than thought March 13, 2017
Bizarre Stories Inside the minds of real-life zombies — people who think they have a dead brain inside a living body May 1, 2023
Neurology Scientists pick the brain of comedians to learn about the neuroscience of humor March 1, 2017
Mind & Brain Sleeping more than 9 hours a night may put you at risk of developing dementia at old age March 1, 2017
Mind & Brain Sea slugs can’t remember their dreams — and here’s why you can’t, either December 6, 2016
Mind & Brain The seat of consciousness might lie in two brain regions. Stimulating them could wake up patients from coma November 17, 2016
Animals Bees can feel optimism, possibly other ’emotion-like states’ as well, study finds October 7, 2016
Health Brain interface enables monkeys to thought-type passages from Hamlet with 12 words per minute September 14, 2016
Mind & Brain Brain circuit links sleep-wake cycle with reward system — a new potential target for insomnia drugs September 6, 2016
