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Dirty Minds: How Our Brains Influence Love, Sex, and Relationships [More]
Read More »Autism Signs Appear in Brains of 6-Month-Old Infants
The early signs of autism are visible in the brains of 6-month-old infants, a new study finds, suggesting that future treatments could be given at this time, to lessen the impact of the disorder on children. [More]
Read More »Video: Looking younger is all in your head: Psychiatrist
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
Read More »Brain Injury Rate 7 Times Greater among U.S. Prisoners
A car accident, a rough tackle, an unexpected tumble. The number of ways to bang up the brain are almost as numerous as the people who sustain these injuries
Read More »Brain Injury Rate 7 Times Greater among U.S. Prisoners
A car accident, a rough tackle, an unexpected tumble. The number of ways to bang up the brain are almost as numerous as the people who sustain these injuries. And only recently has it become clear just how damaging a seemingly minor knock can be.
Read More »The Science of Concussion and Brain Injury
How medicine, sports and society are trying to heal and protect the brains of millions amidst the growing awareness of the long-lasting effects of traumatic head injury [More]
Read More »Quantum Entanglement-The Movie
In this dramatized film, Scientifc American editors George Musser and John Matson try to fool a colleague into thinking their brains are quantum-entangled.
Read More »Sculpting the Impossible: Solid Renditions of Visual Illusions
In an impossible figure, seemingly real objects--or parts of objects--form geometric relations that physically cannot happen. Dutch artist M.
Read More »Brain Science and How You Sell
Neuroscience is proving what sales pros have long suspected: Customers decide with their emotions, not their brains. Neuroscience is the study of the nervous system. It's a big deal in the academic world—and it could end up being a big deal in the business world, too
Read More »Brains Built To Cooperate
We are social animals.
Read More »Brains Built To Cooperate
We are social animals. So you might assume our brains are built to excel when we cooperate with each other, as opposed to when we function in isolation
Read More »Video: Conjoined twins successfully separated in London
British doctors have successfully separated twin girls who were born joined at the head. The sisters shared blood supply to their brains - giving surgeons a difficult challenge. CBS News correspondent Tina Kraus reports.
Read More »September 2011 Advances: Additional resources
The Advances section of Scientific American 's September issue reports on a vaccine against nicotine addiction, a new x-ray technique inspired by large particle accelerators, how the brains of city folk may differ from their country cousins', and more. For those interested in learning more about the developments described in this section, a list of selected further reading follows
Read More »City Living Can Harm Your Mental State: Study
As compared to rural dwellers, urbanites are more stressed and more likely to develop schizophrenia.
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