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Movies and television shows are full of scenes where a man tries unsuccessfully to interact with a pretty woman.

AUSTIN, Texas Use your brain to control the world. That’s the promise of the brain-machine interface , a system that directly translates your thoughts into actions. Here at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, Julian Bleecker and Nicolas Nova, technologists from the Near Future Laboratory , have showed how popular culture has explored the possibilities of the devices for both good and evil and how researchers are making the technology a reality today.

You know your device's memory will one day fail or not be enough, but how well do you know the faults of your onboard wetware? The best memory system may not be the one inside your head.

Customers buy brands, not products. If you can't articulate the reason for your company's existence, you're going to lose out.

Can Alzheimer's disease be prevented? UCLA Longevity Center director Dr

New research shows your brain may look and act older than it is if your diet is low in omega-3 fatty acids, acids, which are plentiful in most fish.

Is it possible to use more of our brain? [More]

Contemporary life, with its flurry of e-mails, alerts, and appointments, can feel overwhelming, even for entrepreneurs. Train your brain to deal with the chaos. Entrepreneurs these days are bombarded with e-mails and information from the moment they grab their smartphones in the morning until they click their laptops closed before bed

This is the only way to win at networking: Always offer to help. Never expect anything in return. I call it Golden Rule of Networking, and it should permeate all your networking efforts

The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present [More]

The founder of Joie de Vivre hotels on his new book, Emotional Equations, and the trick he uses to combat paralyzing anxiety. Chip Conley knows fear. In 2008 with the economy in recession, his hotel business Joie de Vivre sinking around him, a family member wrongly convicted and in San Quentin prison, five close friends recently lost to suicide—his heart just stopped

Dr. Daniel Amen discusses how you can slow -- or even reverse -- the brain's aging process through physical, emotional health

Do our brains play a role in looking younger? Psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Armen discusses his new book, "Use Your Brain to Change Your Age," and the connection between healthy thinking and healthy living with the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts

Your brain is special.

This Valentine's Day, Scientific American traces the flow of chemicals in the brain during different phases of romance and describes surprising insights from the science of attraction.