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A growing body of evidence indicates that memory is deeply unreliable and that life-shattering events cannot be buried for years and then winched out of the deep waters of the subconscious 08.02.2004

Vital Signs

What do you do when a live patient declares that he is, in fact, dead? 07.25.2004

Thinking Faster

Are the brain's emotional circuits hardwired for speed? 05.29.2004

Keith Black

Determined to enter the brain in a friendly way 04.21.2004

Are You Smothering Your Kid With Kindness?

02.05.2004

Emerging Technology

A revolutionary idea that could convert critics of these virtual worlds 12.03.2003

Discover Data: If you want to be sound of mind, remain sound of body

10.01.2003

Can We Trust Research Done with Lab Mice?

New studies show that animals used in critical experiments may be out of their minds 07.01.2003

Vital Signs

What's the connection between mental illness and cornea color? 06.01.2003

Autism's Source: It's Not the Shot

02.01.2003

Vital Signs

Why does this young woman's head pound when she puts on her shoes? 01.01.2003

What You can learn from drunk monkeys

A remarkable NIH study says you're just as likely to become an alcoholic from a bad childhood as from bad genes 07.01.2002

Fire in the Brain

Can programmable implants help epileptics detect the onset of seizures? 05.01.2002

Vital Signs

Uncovering a rare but age-old disease of pain and madness 04.01.2002

The Biology of . . . Schizophrenia

New research shows that the biological clock ticks for men too 10.01.2001

The Serotonin Surprise

"I think you have to accept that there's a structural change in your brain when you take drugs like Prozac." 07.01.2001

Can We Go to Mars Without Going Crazy?

Forget about the technical problems. What we really have to worry about is what seven astronauts will do to one another after being locked up in a tiny capsule for nine months 05.01.2001

Vital Signs

Headache, fever, and vomiting-a simple viral infection, right? 05.01.2001

Wild Dreams

Sigmund Freud may have been right after all— dreams are an open door to your unconscious mind. 04.01.2001

Getting Stupid

New research indicates that teenagers who drink too much may lose as much as 10 percent of their brainpower— the difference between passing and failing in school . . . and in life 03.01.2001

Works in Progress

Can custom-made video games help kids with attention deficit disorder? 03.01.2001

Byron Caughey A Sane Look at Mad Cows

03.01.2001

Vital Signs

A wonderful vacation puts newlyweds in a tailspin 09.01.2000

Vital Signs

The patient's stitches were in place, but her wound would be slow to heal 07.01.2000

The Pain Is in the Brain

The biggest headache for headache researchers has always been: Where does the pain come from? The answer might seem obvious, but it's nothing less than a revolutionary discovery 03.01.2000

Vital Signs

Why was my patient suddenly falling apart after decades of healthy living? 02.01.2000

The Shape of Madness

A maverick mathematician thinks he's found schizophrenia's hiding place. 01.01.2000

Mind Over Time

Now that we've finally figured out where our biological clocks are located, can we learn to control them? 07.01.1999

Mind Over Time

Now that we've finally figured out where our biological clocks are located, can we learn to control them? 07.01.1999

Vital Signs

What did Mr. Leonard's back have to do with his eyesight? 06.01.1999

Stress and Your Brain

War, rape, sexual abuse, and other severe trauma--even a car accident--could make part of your brain disappear 03.01.1999

Vital Signs:Locked in Place

Andrea's accident had imprisoned her mind in a lifeless body. But how was anyone to know? 05.01.1998

Vital Signs: A Passion for Painting

Suddenly, at 52, Mr. Carter changed. Now he cared only for art and scorned the world he knew 01.01.1998

The Year in Science: Genetics 1997

MY HEART I GOT FROM DADDY 01.01.1998

In 1949 lobotomy was hailed as a medical miracle. But images of zombielike patients and surgeons with ice picks soon put an end to the practice. Now, however, the practitioners have refined their tools. 10.01.1997

It Kills Horses, Doesn't It?

Borna virus used to be an obscure veterinary problem in Saxony. But it's obscure no more. A couple of German virologists believe the bug may be sending people, in large numbers, to the psychiatric ward. 10.01.1997

On the Origin of Darwin's Ills

09.01.1997

Soccer Brains

08.01.1997

Fear and Loathing in Bochum

04.01.1997

Emergency Deliveries

04.01.1997

Sleep and Snake Oil

03.01.1997

Allen Encounters

02.01.1997

Exercising the Brain

01.01.1997

A Bullet to the Mind

10.01.1996

That Fine Madness

Great artists are more likely to suffer from manic depression than the rest of us. So claims the latest in a long line of explanations that link mental illness with genius. 10.01.1996

Tough Love

09.01.1996

Brain, Heal Thyself

08.01.1996

Seeing Things

07.01.1996

The Chemistry of Obsession

06.01.1996

Firestorm

06.01.1996

Stress and the Forgetfulness of Age

05.01.1996

Crowded Rat Cages: The Silver Lining

05.01.1996

Ego Boundaries, or the Fit of My Father's Shirt

A neuroscientist racks his brains to find where one person ends and another begins. 11.01.1995

Fetal Attraction

In theory, brain cells that have been killed by Parkinson's disease can be replaced with cells from the brains of aborted fetuses. Now that the necessary politics and the technology are in place, neurosurgeons are about to find out if that theory is correct. 07.01.1995

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