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Chemistry World
February 2006
Michael Gross |
Cupid's Chemistry Scientists are beginning to make some sense of romantic love through modern imaging techniques and a multidisciplinary approach involving geneticists, biochemists, anthropologists, psychologists, and others.   |
Investment Advisor
September 2005
Olivia Mellan |
The Psychology of Advice: Gender Matters A financial advisor's understanding of male-female differences (and similarities) can offer more insight, more compassion, and more inspiration in helping individuals and couples create the life they envision. |
Chemistry World
October 4, 2007
John Bonner |
How Traumatic Events Leave a Mark on the Brain Researchers in the US have a discovered a potential mechanism to explain why people retain stronger memories of events that occur in emotionally charged situations. |
Psychology Today
Mar/Apr 2006
Douglas Starr |
Animal Passions--Fido Loves You Joy, despair, and the bold rush of love; experts insist such nuanced feelings are unique to humans, but some say they connect us to the rest of the animal kingdom. |
Scientific American
December 2008
Lizzie Buchen |
The Science of Finding a Face in the Crowd Discrete brain sections form a dedicated network to recognize faces |
Wired
August 2001
Jennifer Kahn |
Let's Make Your Head Interactive The Human Brain Project is combining wet anatomy with next-gen scanning, imaging, and networking to give neuroscience a revolutionary new tool -- the globally accessible online mind... |
Wired
July 2005
Annalee Newitz |
The Coming Boom Big Pharma has made billions pumping up the male population. Now neuroscientists are reverse engineering the female orgasm. For women, excitement starts in the brain. |
Scientific American
June 2007
Sally Lehrman |
Going Beyond X and Y Babies born with mixed sex organs often get immediate surgery. New genetic studies, Eric Vilain says, should force a rethinking about sex assignment and gender identity. |
Reason
December 2000
Gwen J. Broude |
Scatterbrained Child Rearing Books: The Myth of the First Three Years: A New Understanding of Early Brain Development and Lifelong Learning, by John T. Bruer... Reclaiming Our Children: A Healing Plan for a Nation in Crisis, by Peter R. Breggin... |
Psychology Today
Jul/Aug 2008
Rebecca Webber |
Mesearch Some investigators take the quest for self-knowledge to the extreme: Meet five researchers who applied their scientific minds to the defining challenges in their own lives. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Jonah Lehrer |
Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene I'm in the dissection room of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, and the scientist next to me is in a hurry. |
Salon.com
September 1, 2000
Eric Sabo |
Chemical ravings Worried that ecstasy may fry the serotonin cells in their brains, some ravers are taking Prozac. |
Psychology Today
Mar/Apr 2008
Karen Wright |
Consuming Passions Appetite may be the ultimate mind-body problem. Understanding the true nature of appetite is the only way to successfully obstruct it. |
Reason
September 2004
Cathy Young |
Taking Science Seriously Stephen Rhoads, author of Taking Sex Differences Seriously, mixes genuinely interesting information and analysis with dubious generalizations, slim or anecdotal evidence, and sometimes downright junk science. |
Wired
May 19, 2008
Daniel Carlat |
Brain Scans as Mind Readers? Don't Believe the Hype Can Spect scans of the brain really show our mind in action, or are we allowing ourselves to be seduced by images that may actually tell us very little? |
Psychology Today
Jul/Aug 2007
Miller & Kanazawa |
Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature Like it or not, human nature is simply not politically correct. Men like blond bombshells (and women want to look like them)... Humans are naturally polygamous... Most women benefit from polygyny, while most men benefit from monogamy... etc. |
Technology Research News
October 3, 2005
Eric Smally |
USC's Michael Arbib The Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science shares his views on trends in science and technology, his work, and the links between technology, neuroscience, and behavior. |
Salon.com
September 30, 2002
Matthew Blakeslee |
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. |
Reason
February 2001
Cathy Young |
Where the Boys Are Is America shortchanging male children? |
Salon.com
September 27, 2000
Amy O'Connor |
Better loving through chemistry Why do guys sulk after a fight with their girlfriends instead of talking the problem to death? It's the hormone, stupid! |
Salon.com
October 25, 2000
Cynthia Kuhn & Wilkie Wilson |
Cured but worried I've been taking medication for my attention-deficit disorder. The drug really helps, but I'm afraid of its long-term effects... |
ifeminists
August 16, 2006
Karen De Coster |
Women and the Freedom Philosophy: Is There Hope? Women, who usually have nurturing tendencies from birth, take this virtue outside of family and voluntary relationships, and turn it into a top-down cultivation wherein the state, through coercive and interventionist methods, breeds an entire generation of foster children. |
Inc.
September 1, 2002
Thea Singer |
The Innovation Factor: Your Brain on Innovation Want to know what makes a creative genius tick? Neuroscience gives us some clues. |
Popular Mechanics
November 2007
Jeff Wise |
Thought Police: How Brain Scans Could Invade Your Private Life In the past decade, a wave of researchers using scans has laid bare the rough schematics of how our brains handle fear, memory, risk-taking, romantic love and other mental processes. Soon, the technology could go even further, pulling back the curtain guarding our most private selves. |
Science News
April 15, 2006
Ivars Peterson |
Men, Women, Cars, and Crashes While a new study that shows male traffic fatalities outnumber female fatalities through all age brackets may suggest innate behavioral differences between the sexes, another plausible interpretation leans more toward social differences. |
BusinessWeek
April 19, 2004
Joan O'C. Hamilton |
Journey To The Center Of The Mind "Functional" MRI is yielding a clearer picture of what thoughts look like |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
Samuel K. Moore |
Psychiatry's Shocking New Tools Electronic implants and electromagnetic pulses are picking up where psychoactive drugs have failed. |
Scientific American
February 2009
Gary Stix |
"Lazy Eye" Treatments Provide New Insight on Brain Plasticity Studies show how adult brains can be rewired back to a younger state. |
Scientific American
October 2, 2005
Diane Martindale |
One Face, One Neuron A recent study indicates that our brains employ far fewer cells to interpret a given image than previously believed, and the findings could help neuroscientists determine how memories are formed and stored. |
ifeminists
April 6, 2005
Carey Roberts |
Gender: Good Riddance, Farewell Scientists back the idea that anatomical and functional gender differences exist. |
Wired
February 25, 2008
David Wolman |
A Researcher's Puzzles Point to the Differences in the Autistic Brain Some scientists are setting aside the assumption that autistic brains are defective and instead focusing on how the autistic brain is different. |
ifeminists
August 16, 2006
Carey Roberts |
A Woman Can Do Anything a Man Can Do (Well, Almost) Mom and dad are not interchangeable: little boys don't identify with their moms the same way they bond with their dads. And girls learn different lessons from dads than from moms. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
Morgen E. Peck |
Researchers Testing New Electric Treatment for Migraines A small DC current through the skull seems to interrupt the headaches and may even prevent them |
ifeminists
February 1, 2006
Carey Roberts |
Bias Suit Reveals the Truth Behind the 'Boy Crisis' Why American boys are falling academically behind in a glitter and feathers world. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2006 |
Global Demographic Trends During the past 50 years, the world's population has increased dramatically -- a trend that is projected to continue. Most future growth will occur in less developed countries, where the population is increasing more than five times as fast as that in developed countries. |
Reason
February 2003
Ronald Bailey |
The Battle for Your Brain Science is developing ways to boost intelligence, expand memory, and more. But will you be allowed to change your own mind? |
Entrepreneur
January 2006
Mark Henricks |
Gray Matters As science unlocks more and more of your brain's secrets, learn how harnessing the power of your greatest asset can create a more productive, more persuasive, more competitive business. |
Job Journal
October 2, 2005
Bob Rosner |
Workplace Stereotypes Readers lob letters into the debate on gender differences. |
Wired
April 21, 2008
Eric Hagerman |
Don't Panic. It Makes You Stupid. Research finds that while a little nervousness can boost cognitive performance, periods of intense stress essentially turn us into Neanderthals. |
American Family Physician
December 15, 2005
Meredith Desmond |
Quantum Sufficit - Just Enough Does having a better education help you sleep at night?... If it seems that men just aren't listening, there could be a physical explanation... Exercise in middle age may be the key to fighting Alzheimer's disease... etc. |
Reason
May 2006
Cathy Young |
The Great Fellatio Scare Is oral sex really the latest teen craze in America? |
Chemistry World
October 3, 2006
Victoria Gill |
Ten Year Setback for Obesity Control The race for an effective appetite-suppressing, anti-obesity drug has been held back by disappointing results from a human clinical trial. The findings underline the complexity of human obesity, conclude the researchers, and suggest it could be many years before a drug gets to market. |
Scientific American
April 2007
Michael Shermer |
Free to Choose The neuroscience of choice exposes the power of ideas. |
Psychology Today
Sep/Oct 2006
Katherine Ellison |
Mastering Your Own Mind Distracted? Angry? Envious? There's growing evidence that attention, emotion regulation -- even love -- are skills that can be trained through the practice of meditation. Perhaps it's time for you to become a high-performance user of your own brain. |
Wired
October 2004
Jennifer Kahn |
If You Secretly Like Michael Bolton, We'll Know A proud nerd puts her prefrontal cortex on the line to discover why brain mapping is the new trend spotting (and the hottest trend in brain science). |
Popular Mechanics
June 1, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Brain Man: Questions for Neuroergonomics Expert Raja Parasuraman It's a merger of neuroscience, the study of the brain, with ergonomics, the study of how to design systems and technologies to be more compatible with what we know about human capabilities and limitations. |
Popular Mechanics
February 13, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Dollhouse's Memory Science Mixes Fact with Fiction Memory erasure might seem like pure sci-fi, but it's actually on the cutting edge of science. Three memory experts separate what's fact from what's fiction on Fox's new show, Dollhouse, premiering tonight at 9 pm. |
Psychology Today
Jan/Feb 2007
Kaja Perina |
Love's Loopy Logic Encounters with the opposite sex skew our psyches in such a special way that reason and bias climb right into bed with each other. In this mode, it sometimes pays to deceive ourselves. Welcome to the paradoxical world of mating intelligence. |
Salon.com
February 5, 2002
Amy Benfer |
Lost boys While girls surge ahead in all subjects at school, boys are lagging behind. Is "girl power" to blame? Do boys need their own dose of "empowerment"? |
Scientific American
January 9, 2006
Philip E. Ross |
Half-Brained Schemes If halving the brain of an epileptic child can suppress debilitating seizures without interfering with the development of normal intellectual abilities, what's all that gray matter good for, anyway? |
