Brains

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  • Divining the brain

    Andrew Newberg discusses what happens in our brains during prayer, meditation and mystical visions. Yet understanding the brain, argues the neuroscientist, does not close the book on the nature of religious experience.
    By Steve Paulson September 20, 2006

  • Just like a woman

    Lawrence Summers was right about one thing: There are innate differences between males and females. And if we want everyone to succeed, we shouldn't dismiss them.
    By Lorraine Dusky March 2, 2005

  • In search of my own brain

    In an excerpt from "Mind Wide Open" Steven Johnson details his attempt to catch his own mind in the act of thinking.
    By Steven Johnson February 18, 2004

  • This really is your brain on drugs

    In "Mind Wide Open" Steven Johnson looks under the cranial hood to find out what makes him -- and us -- tick.
    By Andrew Leonard February 18, 2004

  • Madison Avenue and your brain

    New advances in neuroscience are explaining why people just do it, exactly as they're told to, when that commercial comes on.
    By Matthew Blakeslee September 30, 2002

  • From the Internet springs life eternal

    Online dinosaurs never go extinct -- instead, they thrive, jostling with their descendants for our attention.
    By Lizard January 19, 2001

  • All is not quite right

    Our lives are transformed. Second of two parts.
    By Sam Crane December 7, 2000

  • Immunized against addiction

    Can a simple vaccine kill the appetite for cocaine? Researchers may soon find out.
    By Dawn MacKeen April 26, 2000

  • The myths and truths of our muscle of love

    An interview with Sherwin B. Nuland, author of "The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths."
    By David Bowman April 3, 2000

  • Stress

    Act more like a zebra and it won't kill you.
    By Robert Burton, M.D. March 20, 2000

  • The mysterious mind

    One author doubts that we will ever explain and control the brain.
    By Arthur Allen October 27, 1999

  • Welcome back, Lewis

    "The New New Thing" author once said J-school ate his brain. Guess where he's teaching now.
    By Alex Salkever October 25, 1999

  • Pot on the brain

    Our bodies produce cannabis-like substances anyway, so why not put them in pill form to kill pain?
    By Damien Cave October 15, 1999

  • Check your head

    Untreated concussions could be academic headaches for college football players.
    By Alex Salkever September 29, 1999

  • A terrible thing to waste

    You do not need brains to go to the Harvard Brain Bank, only a brain.
    By Mary Roach September 24, 1999

  • Therapy is painless

    From Freud to divorce court: A therapist to meet your every need. Plus: Dan Savage vs. the Republicans; Elvis' "black satin-like" pajamas on the auction block.
    By Jenn Shreve August 20, 1999

  • The big E

    Doctors, law enforcement and ravers are scrutinizing ecstasy's possible long-term effects as the drug pours into the U.S. in record numbers.
    By Dawn MacKeen July 7, 1999

  • Width matters

    Einstein's brain deemed physically extraordinary.
    By Emma Ross June 18, 1999

  • Thought-activated computing

    Thought-activated computing: By Sam Witt and Sean Durkin. The cyberpunk vision of a brain/computer interface becomes real -- as a boon for the paralyzed.
    By Sam Witt And Sean Durkin November 23, 1998

  • Consciousness dethroned

    The mind's I only thinks it's in charge, argues 'The User Illusion.'
    By Matthew DeBord July 8, 1998

  • The heart of the matter

    Researchers have discovered what romantics have long suspected: that chaos and love are the same, and they're both good for the heart.
    By Geoff Shandler February 13, 1998

  • Primus- The Brown Album

    By Ezra Gale July 18, 1997

  • Sharps and Flats: Jungle Brothers

    By Terri Sutton July 4, 1997
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