Stories from Cerebrum, the monthly online magazine that can change your mind. http://www.dana.orgMon, 20 May 2013 07:53:28 EDTen-usCopyright 2010, Dana Foundation http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=42870By all accounts, scientific misconduct over the last decade is on the rise, especially in the area of journal retractions. In neuroscience, our author—both a leading academic and an experienced neuroscience journal editor—believes the field is detecting “only the tip of the fraud iceberg.” His story addresses the nature, detection, and incentives for fraud, and suggests reforms.2013-05-02T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=41290When it comes to funding drug research to treat depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, and other psychiatric disorders, the global pharmaceutical industry prefers to invest its research dollars in cancer, metabolism, autoimmunity, and other disease areas. This comes despite the fact that one in five Americans currently take at least one psychiatric drug and that mental disorders are recognized worldwide.  The author traces the evolution of psychiatric drug development, the reasons for its retreat, and what needs to change to meet the growing demand.2013-04-02T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=40904Are children from underserved communities doomed to fail? Paul Tough's new book, "How Children Succeed," examines whether character is more important than cognition and what is possible through ideas and innovation.2013-03-11T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=40734John M. Freeman, M.D., one of the nation’s leading advocates of the ketogenic diet, writes about the evolution of the diet and its struggle for acceptance for people suffering from epilepsy.2013-03-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=40424A postmortem brain study provides new and troubling evidence about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a long-term degenerative and incurable brain disease caused by repeated hits to the head. An author of the study, Chris Nowinski, a former college football player and professional wrestler, writes about how a concussion put him on the path of dedicating his life to making others aware of the dangers of CTE and toward developing a treatment.2013-02-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=40002Many animal species besides humans show evidence of individuality. Knowing how a risk-taker differs from its stay-at-home counterpart could not only help humans live more easily with our fellow creatures, says Lee Dugatkin of the University of Louisville, but also tell us a few things about ourselves and how we got this way.2013-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=39986Physicians first noted the presence of cognitive impairment in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) more than 160 years ago, yet it took clinicians until 2001 to codify a standard test to measure cognitive function. We now know that cognitive impairment occurs in up to 65 percent of people with MS and usually lessens their ability to remember previously learned information. So far, trials of drugs formulated to treat cognitive impairment have failed, but the authors remain optimistic that new approaches to diagnosis and drug development could lead to effective therapies in the future.2012-11-30T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=39638Today, more of the world’s population is bilingual or multilingual than monolingual. In addition to facilitating cross-cultural communication, this trend also positively affects cognitive abilities. Researchers have shown that the bilingual brain can have better attention and task-switching capacities than the monolingual brain, thanks to its developed ability to inhibit one language while using another. In addition, bilingualism has positive effects at both ends of the age spectrum: Bilingual children as young as seven months can better adjust to environmental changes, while bilingual seniors can experience less cognitive decline2012-10-31T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=39402In this article, adapted from Dr. Sam Wang and Dr. Sandra Aamodt’s book Welcome to Your Child’s Brain: How the Mind Grows from Conception to College (Bloomsbury USA, 2011; OneWorld Publications, 2011), the authors explore how play enhances brain development in children. As Wang and Aamodt describe, play activates the brain’s reward circuitry but not negative stress responses, which can facilitate attention and action. Through play, children practice social interaction and build skills and interests to draw upon in the years to come.2012-09-24T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=39360The brain acquires certain skills—from visual perception to language—during critical windows, specific times in early life when the brain is actively shaped by environmental input. Scientists are now discovering pathways in animal models through which these windows might be re-opened in adults, thus re-awakening a brain’s youth-like plasticity. Such research has implications for brain injury repair, sensory recovery, and neurodevelopmental disorder treatment.2012-08-29T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=39296While Dr. Paul J. Zak’s book will appeal to a broad audience, he oversimplifies many arguments, leaving reviewer Loretta M. Flanagan-Cato with a number of concerns.2012-07-30T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=39258Recovery from a brain injury is a slow process with no obvious end point—a practical dilemma for patients, caregivers, and medical professionals. While research continues to advance the field to determine optimal interventions,front-line providers have found that certain rehabilitation environments and procedures encourage a stronger recovery than others. But even as specialized facilities make strides, many people face barriers to adequate care.2012-07-30T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=39280Authors Marcela Pekna and Milos Pekny explain what happens within the brain after injury and how scientists’ growing awareness of the brain's capacity for repair could lead to better treatment options.2012-07-30T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=39160Chronic pain affects 1.5 billion people worldwide, an estimated 100 million of whom live in the United States. Yet we currently have no effective treatment options. Fortunately, research advances have determined some of the ways in which chronic pain changes the brain, and several promising research areas could lead to better treatment approaches. Dr. David Borsook recommends steps to facilitate these new treatments, including the establishment of integrated clinical neuroscience centers bridging the gap between bench and bedside.2012-06-27T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=38542Dr. Dean F. MacKinnon, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, finds this book “to be a valuable contribution to the general literature about real people, their real experiences with mental illness and psychiatric care, and the knowledge we have accumulated about all of it.”2012-05-30T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=38554Biomarkers and the Future of Treatment for Depression 2012 05 30 false2012-05-30T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=37188During gestation, the fetal brain develops dramatically as structures and connections form, providing the foundation for all future development. Exposure to maternal stress can sometimes have deleterious effects on the fetus, depending on the cause, timing, duration, and intensity of stress. Fortunately, postnatal interventions, such as a secure parent-infant bond and an enriched environment, can buffer the potential negative consequences. 2012-04-25T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=36272Doctors currently treat rheumatoid arthritis, a crippling autoimmune disease, with an arsenal of drugs that, while often effective, can have serious side effects. Authors Ulf Andersson and Kevin J. Tracey describe a circuit between the immune system and the nervous system that enabled development of an implanted nerve stimulator to treat the disorder, now being tested by a patient in Bosnia. If further clinical trials show as much promise as this initial case, similar devices may be developed for a broad range of inflammation-related diseases, from diabetes to congestive heart failure.2012-03-21T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=35670Researchers are now using brain imaging to study the neural underpinnings of spontaneous artistic creativity, from jazz riffs to freestyle rap. So far, they have found that brain areas deactivated during improvisation are also at rest during dreaming and meditation, while activated areas include those controlling language and sensorimotor skills. Even with relatively few completed studies, researchers have concluded that musical creativity clearly cannot be tied to just one brain area or process.2012-02-22T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=35150The suicide rate of active-duty soldiers doubled between 2003 and 2010. In response, the Department of Defense and the United States Army improved their data collection methods to better understand the causes of military suicides. As retired colonel Dr. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie writes, unit history and the accumulation of stressors—from relationship problems to chronic pain—are significant suicide risk factors among soldiers. But, she argues, Army officials must use this knowledge to design more-effective strategies for suicide reduction, including limiting access to weapons, especially post-deployment, and better connecting soldiers with their communities.2012-01-25T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=34724Social neuroscientists boost our knowledge of the biology of animal and human interactions in areas as diverse as drug abuse, pair-bonding, and social isolation. As the field continues to grow, we will better understand the social, biological, and cognitive factors that determine how we relate to others.2011-12-19T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=34614In 2004, scientists, including author Edward S. Boyden, Ph.D., found that the neural expression of a protein, channelrhodopsin-2 (ChR2), allowed light to activate or silence brain cells. This technology, now known as optogenetics, is helping scientists determine the functions of specific neurons in the brain, and could play a significant role in treating medical issues as diverse as sleep disorders and vision impairment.2011-11-30T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=34364Jerome Kagan, Ph.D., writes that Making Sense of People "fails to tell readers what they have to do in order to attain the prize they hoped they would command—decoding the personalities of themselves and others—when they began reading the book."2011-10-26T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=34202Early-life stress can lead to long-lasting behavioral, mental, and physical consequences. Fortunately, preventive measures can improve health outcomes, and while interventions for those who have already experienced debilitating early-life stress require considerable effort, they remain possible, thanks to the brain’s plasticity.2011-09-21T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=34198Juvenile court judges are asked to determine what is in the best interest of the child in every case they hear. Until about a decade ago, court decisions were routinely made without taking into consideration the needs of toddlers and infants. The Miami Child Well-Being Court™ (MCWBC) program, a partnership of clinicians and judges, has brought science into the courtroom, making it integral to the decision-making process and working to ensure that the needs of the child are met.2011-09-21T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=33796While researchers have made great strides in understanding stuttering in adults, the neural basis of stuttering in children largely remains a mystery. We do not yet know why up to 80 percent of children who stutter recover without intervention, nor do we know how to distinguish those who will recover without intervention from those who will not. However, recent findings support the idea that early intervention can alter or normalize brain function before stuttering-induced changes become hardwired.2011-08-23T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=33670There are currently no cures for neurodegenerative diseases, including Batten disease, a rare and fatal disorder affecting young children. While researchers have made headway in preventing genetic disorders through preconception carrier screenings and have found potential drug targets, the gap between basic research and clinical treatment development remains. To overcome this gap, researchers in academia and the pharmaceutical industry, supported by government agencies and nonprofit institutions, must come together to share expertise and promote translational research.2011-07-21T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=33550In How We Age, writes Dr. Stanley Slater, Marc E. Agronin presents a balanced view of aging  stemming "from his concern for understanding the lives of his patients through listening to what they have to say and his ongoing devotion to bettering their lives."2011-06-23T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=33556Pathways responsible for higher-order thinking in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), or executive center of the brain, remain vulnerable throughout life—during critical early-life developmental windows, when the PFC fully matures in the early 20s, and finally from declines associated with old age. At all ages, physical activity and PFC-navigated social connections are essential components to maintaining brain health. The Experience Corps, a community-based social-engagement program, partners seniors with local schools to promote purpose-driven involvement. Participating seniors have exhibited immediate short-term gains in brain regions vulnerable to aging, such as the PFC, indicating that people with the most to lose have the most to gain from environmental enrichment.2011-06-23T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=32670While our genetic code determines a great deal of who and what we are, it does not act alone. It depends heavily on the epigenome, an elaborate marking of the DNA that controls the genome’s functions. Because it is sensitive to the environment, the epigenome is a powerful link and relay between our genes and our surroundings. Epigenetic marks drive biological functions and features as diverse as memory, development, and disease susceptibility; thus, the nurture aspect of the nature/nurture interaction makes essential contributions to our body and behaviors. As scientists have learned more about how the epigenome works, they have begun to develop therapies that may lead to new approaches to treating common human conditions.2011-05-25T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=32664 Oversimplifying Sex Differences in the Brain Review: Man and Woman: An Inside Story 2011-05-25 false Man and Woman: An Inside Story Donald W. Pfaff, Ph.D. 2010-10-01 Oxford University Press 232 pages $27.95 In Man and Woman: An Inside Story, writes Dr. Larry2011-05-25T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=32066If all goes as planned, the American Psychiatric Association will release a new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) in May 2013. But, argues Dr. Steven Hyman, the DSM is a poor mirror of clinical and biological realities; a fundamentally new approach to diagnostic classification is needed as researchers uncover novel ways to study and understand mental illness.2011-04-26T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=31364Getting treatment for a mental illness can be difficult for anyone. But for members of ethnic and racial minority groups, the road to treatment is often blocked by cultural views of mental illness and therapy, lack of insurance and access to appropriate care, and a critical deficiency of studies pertaining to nonwhite populations. Significant changes to the mental health field must be made in order for proper care to be widely available and accepted.2011-03-23T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=30762It takes a series of unfortunate circumstances for an adolescent to turn violent. While early exposure to familial violence can play a role, so too can biological influences such as hormone levels and genetic predispositions. The combination of these factors can be deadly. Although genes and other biological causes are difficult to identify and may be impossible to overcome through known therapeutic methods, medical professionals’ intervention techniques can help minimize aggressive behavior related to environmental factors.2011-02-16T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=30766In The Mind's Eye, writes Dr. Semir Zeki, Oliver Sacks describes the visual apparatus of the brain and its vulnerability in lucid prose.2011-02-16T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=30356The goal of computational neuroscience is to understand the brain and its mechanisms well enough to artificially simulate their functions. Yet there is still much about the brain that is unknown: How does the brain use language, make complex associations, or organize learned experiences? Once the neural pathways responsible for these and many other functions are fully understood and reconstructed, researchers will have the ability to build systems that can match—and maybe even exceed—the brain’s capabilities.2011-01-31T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=30362Rob Teszka, a former magician and current student of cognitive and decision sciences at University College London, reviews Sleights of Mind by Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde with Sandra Blakeslee.2011-01-31T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=29524Vassilis E. Koliatsos, M.D., and Leyan Xu, M.D., Ph.D., describe the research leading up to Dr. Jonathan Glass' clinical trial, which tests the safety of using stem cells to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.2010-12-15T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=29522Jonathan D. Glass, M.D., is leading a clinical trial testing the safety of using adult stem cells to treat patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease that remains untreatable. This trial, along with others like it, is just the beginning of a time-intensive process necessary to determine whether the benefits of stem-cell treatments—if there prove to be any—outweigh the risks.2010-12-15T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=29374Bipolar disorder diagnosis has been rising dramatically in children for the past decade. In coming years, argues Daniel Dickstein, M.D., recognizing and diagnosing bipolar disorder in children should be based more on biological markers, such as brain structure and the use of neural circuits, than on the inconsistent diagnostic categories laid out in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.2010-11-10T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=29284In 1999, Cerebrum published a list of books about the brain, guiding readers to “the great books, past and present, that capture the unfolding story of the brain and how brain research is changing our ideas about memory and emotion, life span and language, neurological disorders and psychiatric syndromes.” Eleven years later, we’ve put together an updated edition—with your help.2010-11-10T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=29272Traumatic memories haunt the lives of people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and other illnesses. Fortunately, recent research into the changeability of long-term memories may someday develop into treatments for such individuals. But before this can happen, researchers must determine just how effectively the fear associated with older memories—especially those involved in PTSD—can be reduced and for how long.2010-10-29T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=29194Over the last 20 years, researchers have been interested in what the brain does during periods of supposed inactivity. They discovered that when someone appears to be doing nothing at all, a network of brain regions—named the default network—is hard at work, allowing for the rich inner lives inside our heads. Applying what is known about the default network to diseases like Alzheimer’s allows for new possibilities for diagnosis and evaluation of treatments.2010-10-13T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=29196George Koob, Ph.D., chair of the Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders at The Scripps Research Institute, reviews How Pleasure Works by Paul Bloom, Ph.D.2010-10-13T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=29090There is not just one type of epilepsy. While some forms of the disease are characterized by convulsive seizures, others involve seizures that are barely noticeable. Normal variations in hormones, such as estrogen and testosterone, can influence brain activity and therefore influence seizures. By considering the powerful interactions between the brain and the endocrine system, this influence of hormones on seizures can be understood and new treatment options can be considered.2010-09-22T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=28926Dr. Regina Sullivan explains how her research with rat pups has led to greater understanding of the infant brain, and how negative early experiences can cause long-term genetic, brain, behavioral, and hormonal changes that can affect not only the abuse victim but also the victim’s descendants.2010-09-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=28896Michaela Labriole, a science instructor at the New York Hall of Science, provides tangible examples of how teachers can encourage brain-science literacy in students at a time when growing knowledge of the brain is shaping our understanding of how to best foster learning.2010-08-11T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=28900Dr. Jo Ellen Roseman and Mary Koppal, from the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), discuss how brain science fits into national classroom curricula. While recommendations from several national organizations include brain-related standards, what students actually learn in the classroom varies greatly from state to state.2010-08-11T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=28786In 2008, Henry T. Greely, a professor at Stanford Law School, co-authored a commentary in Nature; it concluded that “safe and effective cognitive enhancers will benefit both the individual and society.” Here, he argues that only some concerns about the use of cognitive enhancements are justified; proper attention is needed to address these issues. He contends that rather than banning cognitive enhancements, as some have suggested, we should determine rules for their use.2010-07-14T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=28084A commentary on Marie-Aurélie Bruno and Steven Laureys' article "Uncovering Awareness: Medical and Ethical Challenges in Diagnosing and Treating the Minimally Conscious State."2010-06-14T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=28088Eight years ago an interdisciplinary group of scientists representing several institutions worked together to codify criteria for the minimally conscious state. Today, technology, such as functional neuroimaging, is beginning to change the way medical professionals diagnose, treat, and communicate with patients once considered to have no or very little conscious awareness.2010-06-14T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=28024Dr. Floyd Bloom takes apart Dr. Irving Kirch's arguments as to why antidepressants are ineffective, using decades of biomedical literature to explore just how effective antidepressants are for a large number of depression sufferers.2010-06-08T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=26886In order to understand autism, we first need to determine the genetic, neuronal, and behavioral elements at play. Researchers will then need to translate this understanding into treatments, an undertaking that will require a long-term, interdisciplinary approach.2010-04-19T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=26122The use of music in therapy for the brain has evolved rapidly as brain-imaging techniques have revealed the brain's plasticity--its ability to change--and have identified networks that music activates. Research has shown that neurologic music therapy can help patients who have difficulty with language, cognition, or motor control, and the authors suggest that these techniques should become part of rehabilitative care.2010-03-24T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=25802The directors of seven brain-related institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) identify the biggest advances, greatest disappointments, and missed opportunities of brain research in the past decade—the decade after the “Decade of the Brain"—and discuss what looks most promising for the coming decade, the 2010s. Complete file.2010-02-26T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=25400In this seven-part series, directors of neuroscience-related institutes at the National Institutes of Health examine how brain research has progressed since 2000—the decade after The Decade of the Brain. Here in the final part, we hear from Richard J. Hodes, M.D., of the National Institute on Aging.2010-02-26T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=25396In this seven-part series, directors of neuroscience-related institutes at the National Institutes of Health examine how brain research has progressed since 2000—the decade after The Decade of the Brain. Here in part six, we hear from James F. Battey Jr., M.D., Ph.D., of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.2010-02-25T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=25394In this seven-part series, directors of neuroscience-related institutes at the National Institutes of Health examine how brain research has progressed since 2000—the decade after The Decade of the Brain. Here in part five, we hear from Paul A. Sieving, M.D., Ph.D., of the National Eye Institute.2010-02-24T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=25390In this seven-part series, directors of neuroscience-related institutes at the National Institutes of Health examine how brain research has progressed since 2000—the decade after The Decade of the Brain. Here in part four, we hear from Kenneth R. Warren, Ph.D., of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.2010-02-23T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=25388In this seven-part series, directors of neuroscience-related institutes at the National Institutes of Health examine how brain research has progressed since 2000—the decade after The Decade of the Brain. Here in part three, we hear from Dr. Story Landis of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.2010-02-22T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=25386In this seven-part series, directors of neuroscience-related institutes at the National Institutes of Health examine how brain research has progressed since 2000—the decade after The Decade of the Brain. Here in part two, we hear from Dr. Thomas R. Insel of the National Institute of Mental Health.2010-02-19T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=25324The directors of seven brain-related institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) identify the biggest advances, greatest disappointments, and missed opportunities of brain research in the past decade—the decade after the “Decade of the Brain"—and discuss what looks most promising for the coming decade, the 2010s.2010-02-18T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=24206In this excerpt from Reading in the Brain, author and French neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene suggests how teachers might draw from scientific advances to help their students learn to read, though he notes that caution is necessary.2009-12-15T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=24068Two scientists suggest that religious experiences arise from brain networks that evolved for other purposes. A psychiatrist counters that the brain may be a medium for religious experience without necessarily generating it.2009-12-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=23738Discoveries about how the brain learns are fueling interest in applying neuroscience in the classroom. In the new field of neuroeducation, scientists and educators should join forces to develop goals for learning-related research, the authors argue.2009-11-10T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=23666Author and former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David A. Kessler presents a provocative theory of why we overeat, complete with sound (though somewhat limited) science, a pair of addiction researchers write in this review.2009-10-27T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=23672Because food is not always plentiful, humans have evolved to eat whenever it is available. Researchers are starting to tease out the brain circuits that elicit this “eat” message, a network that may contribute to today’s widespread obesity. Effective obesity treatment likely will involve combination of drugs, in addition to psychological approaches and exercise—not just a single pill. An accompanying story addresses what goes wrong in people with anorexia nervosa.2009-10-27T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=23560How the foremost clinical manual for psychiatric disorders guides doctors to diagnoses has long been controversial. Now, during the early stages of the manual’s revision, complementary articles—one by four scientists involved in the process, the other by a psychiatrist looking in from the outside—address how to make psychiatric diagnosis both more certain and more flexible.2009-10-13T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=23504The authors of Wednesday Is Indigo Blue do well to let people with synesthesia tell their own stories, Julian Asher writes. But the book does have flaws.2009-10-05T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=23500An action such as a dance move activates the same brain circuitry whether we perform it ourselves or watch someone else perform it, research indicates. This “action observation network” is important for learning.2009-10-05T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=23206Sustained training in music, dance or other arts strengthens the brain’s attention system, which in turn may improve cognition more generally. Evidence for such cognitive “transfer” is accumulating.2009-09-14T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=23134In his review of The Neuro Revolution by Zack Lynch, Michael F. Huerta compliments the animated style Lynch uses to describe how our understanding of the brain and newfound ability to affect it via drugs and technology are changing our lives and our societies. Lynch’s predictions for the future are both exciting and within the realm of scientific possibility.2009-08-17T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=23132The success of deep brain stimulation in treating movement disorders has led to investigations of its use for psychiatric illnesses. While the technique shows early promise in the treatment of depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder, Dr. Mahlon DeLong, M.D., a pioneer in the field, cautions both doctors and patients to be aware of the risks in using this yet unproven mind-altering method.2009-08-17T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=23074The publisher pulled this book from distribution in March 2013. This review was published in 2009.2009-08-10T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=23106The elderly often fall victim to scams, but is it more than aged neurons causing the problem? One expert argues that such slips result from gene-based abnormalities in the brain’s emotional processing rather than the normal deterioration that goes with aging.2009-08-10T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=22800Headlines about how video games affect the brain range from upbeat to dire. Psychologist Douglas A. Gentile asserts that although violent games in particular can have negative consequences, well-designed games can teach positive skills. He proposes five attributes of video game design that can help explain findings and guide future research.2009-07-23T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=22220By Russell A. Poldrack, Ph.D.  Neuroimaging can reveal a great deal about the brain, but scientists and the science-savvy must be careful lest we read too much into imaging findings. Russell A. Poldrack, M.D., a leading theorist on how to interpret certain neuroimaging results, explains the limits of this promising technology and the caveats we should keep in mind when we hear of a “breakthrough.”2009-05-27T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=20980By R. Douglas Shytle, Ph.D., and Paula C. Bickford, Ph.D.  Vitamin D, long ago established as important for healthy bones, also appears to be significant in the brain during development and as we age—but more research is necessary to determine the consequences of vitamin D deficiency and how supplements could help.2009-04-07T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=19620By Jay N. Giedd, M.D.  The changes the brain undergoes during adolescence pave the way to adulthood, priming the young person for life away from home and for finding unrelated mates. But this plasticity also can open the door to poor decision making and risky behavior, writes Jay N. Giedd, a child psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health.2009-02-26T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=14300By Jennifer Kwon, M.D., M.P.H. and Richard H. Dees, Ph.D.  The advantages of screening for diseases and disorders in children seem obvious. Ideally, tests catch problems early and increase opportunities for treatment and recovery. However, Jennifer Kwon and Richard H. Dees note that screening programs can have a number of complications, including ambiguous benefits, the need to educate families and the public, results that land in a gray area between normal and certain disorder, blurred lines between screening and research, and competition for scarce funding. Kwon and Dees urge caution and careful consideration of potential costs alongside potential advantages. 2008-12-23T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=14230 By Adam F. Stewart, S. Claiborne Johnston, M.D., and Ph.D., Stephen L. Hauser, M.D. The editors of a top neuroscience journal explain the unique challenges they face as they attempt to balance the interests of authors, peer reviewers, the journal itself and its readers. 2008-12-17T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=13998By Suzanne Corkin, Ph.D.   Afraid of losing your memory? What if you remembered everything? Suzanne Corkin, a behavioral neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, compares and critiques two recent memoirs by women who relate very differently with memory, adding insight from her own work.2008-12-05T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=14000By Denise C. Park, Ph.D. Working Later in Life May Facilitate Neural Health: Evidence indicates that by continuing to perform difficult tasks and engage in new pursuits, the brain remains flexible over time—good not only for the individual but also for society. Denise C. Park theorizes that exercising the brain causes “scaffolding,” which creates new circuits to support pre-existing pathways.2008-12-05T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=13932By Richard J. Bonnie, J.D. , Donna T. Chen, M.D., M.P.H., and Charles P. O'Brien, M.D., Ph.D.  Neuroscience is offering insights into addiction and providing scientists with pharmacological methods, such as the use of injectable naltrexone, for reducing relapse. Richard J. Bonnie, Donna T. Chen and Charles P. O’Brien consider the ethical and legal implications of different methods for administering naltrexone to convicted drug offenders.  2008-11-25T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=13800By Jerome Kagan, Ph.D.  As reports of childhood behavioral problems increase, Dr. Jerome Kagan raises concern about the reliability of these diagnoses. The rapid rise may stem from children’s experiences and pressures on parents and physicians, he argues.2008-11-10T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=13758By Sebastian Seung, Ph.D.  With the help of high-tech computers and electron microscopes, scientists are working toward mapping the connections of the human brain. Through descriptions of the where the technology is now and where it could go, Sebastian Seung illustrates how it might later be used to answer some of the most puzzling questions about the brain.2008-11-03T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=13570By Wayne A. Gordon, Ph.D.   Traumatic brain injury affects both soldiers and civilians of all ages, and many cases go unidentified because there is no external damage. Wayne Gordon considers the consequences of these severe injuries and how loved ones, teachers and medical professionals can better respond.2008-10-23T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=13576By Lewis P. Rowland, M.D. Book Review. A Portrait of the Brain, by Adam Zeman.  Lewis Rowland, a professor of neurology at Columbia University, writes that neurologist Adam Zeman's book about the brain from atoms to soul presents a succinct yet comprehensive literary tale.2008-10-23T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=13242By Geoffrey K. Aguirre, M.D., Ph.D.  In a recent study, researchers at UCLA used functional magnetic resonance imaging to reveal the secret emotions of undecided voters. The scientific community responded with alarm to what they saw as fanciful claims. Dr. Aguirre addresses the argument from both sides to determine the validity of the method and show that pollsters aren't out of a job--yet.2008-09-12T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=13198By Elizabeth Norton Lasley.  With its emphasis on problem solving, cognitive therapy has helped generations of people with disorders such as depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder—and other applications may follow.2008-09-02T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=13210By Elizabeth Norton Lasley.  Interpersonal therapy is based on the premise that depression often occurs along with the onset of a major life event involving relationships. In it, patient and therapist address depression specifically as it manifests in the patient’s life situation and relationships.2008-09-02T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=13084Excerpt from Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique, by Michael S. Gazzaniga. In his new book, Michael S. Gazzaniga explores what it means to be human. In this excerpt from Chapter 3, he explores the evolutionary and social reasons for why we deceive one another—and ourselves.2008-08-25T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=13102By Mark P. Mattson, Ph.D.  Book Review. Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer, by David Haycock.  In his review, Mark Mattson of the National Institute on Aging notes that the brain is mostly missing from David Haycock’s otherwise fascinating exploration of the history of prolonging life.2008-08-25T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=12622By Jamie Talan.  There is a new hope for patients who have severe depression: An experimental surgical procedure, deep brain stimulation, is proving to reverse the effects of unrelenting depression by stimulating a precise network of brain cells.  Jamie Talan reveals how some of the top scientists are using this procedure. 2008-03-31T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=12040By Guy McKhann, M.D. and Brenda Patoine.  The relationship between heart bypass surgery and brain health is more complex than many of us realize. Whereas cognitive problems sometimes seem to be caused by surgery, recent findings suggest that they instead stem from problems that were present before surgery.2008-02-28T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=11122By David Spiegel, M.D.  In pop culture, “multiple personality disorder” is often portrayed as involving strategic, dramatic, and seductive battles among personalities that are uncomfortably sharing one hapless body. This article is written to set the record straight, to explain what this disorder is and what we understand about its causes, both in early life experience and in the brain.2008-01-31T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=10376 By Michael J. Frank, Ph.D. Many human behaviors are, in essence, reflexes programmed into our brains when we are rewarded or punished for taking a particular action. New research is showing how the basal ganglia, deep inside the brain below the cortex, are important in learning from feedback, in the formation of good and bad habits, and even in brain disorders as diverse as Parkinson’s disease, ADHD, and addiction. 2007-12-07T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=10168By Steven Rose, Ph.D.  Book Review: Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer.  British neuroscientist Steven Rose reviews a new book exploring how artists such as Virginia Woolf, Paul Cezanne, and Igor Stravinsky discovered truths about the human mind that are now being confirmed by brain science.2007-11-30T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=10004Excerpt from The Body Has a Mind of Its Own, by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee.  Our bodies and minds interact through a constantly changing network of “body maps” in our brains. These maps create our ability to navigate our inner world and the social world of our interactions with other people, as well as the physical world. In Chapter 10, excerpted here, the authors discuss how the abilities to interpret sensations within our bodies and to be emotionally aware of other people are linked.2007-11-07T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=9996By Michael E. Selzer, M.D., Ph.D.  Rehabilitation from a brain or spinal cord focuses on enabling people to make the most of what functions they still have. Physical, occupational, and speech therapy, counseling, and education can go only so far, however. For neurorehabilitation to offer the hope of curing the underlying brain damage, writes an expert in the field, it must look to basic science and better clinical trials to put to work the power of the brain’s plasticity.2007-11-06T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=9364By Fabienne Mackay, Ph.D.  Scientists in Australia have recently discovered the first clear molecular process that helps to explain how stress suppresses our immune defenses and makes us more vulnerable to getting sick. Has a biological system that worked well for early humans faced with starvation turned against those of us living with the many new stresses of modern society?2007-10-17T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=9088By Mark Hallett, M.D. and R. Paul McHugh M.D.  Two senior scientists, a neurologist and a psychiatrist, debate the meaning of free will and whether brain science can, now or ever, fully explain it.2007-09-21T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=8964By Petr Janata, Ph.D.  What does the experience of people whose musical abilities have been affected by brain damage teach us about how the brain binds together what we perceive into a seamless flow?2007-08-30T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=8794By Anjan Chatterjee, M.D.  Is taking a drug to lessen the pain of our common daily struggles a “cosmetic” enhancement of human life, even a danger to character, or is it an ethical choice?2007-07-30T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=8446By E. Ray Dorsey, M.D., Philip Vitticore, M.D., Hamilton Moses III, M.D.  Biologics—drugs derived from living organisms—have great potential for treating brain and other diseases, but their risks are significant. How can patients, physicians, industry, and government balance these risks and rewards?2007-07-06T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=7858By Kayt Sukel.  Scientists worldwide are working to understand the devastating effects of malaria on the brain, particularly in young children.2007-05-21T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=7376By Vivian Teichberg, Ph.D. and Luba Vikhanski. Head injury or stroke can cause a surge in glutamate, leaving damaged neurons in its wake. But a new method may help keep the chemical messenger in check.2007-05-10T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=7384By Michael J. Friedlander, Ph.D.  Book Review. Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves.  In Sharon Begley's new book, the interface of Western science and Buddhist philosophy provides the context for considering the implications of lifelong neuroplasticity.2007-05-09T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=5532By Scott P. Edwards.  Prion diseases such as "mad cow" turn the brains of otherwise healthy people into a spongy mush, inevitably killing them. Now researchers are beginning to understand how mutant prion proteins cause this destruction.2007-03-15T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=5534By Scott P. Edwards.  Mad cow and other prion diseases, although fatal, are also very rare and have caused what some scientists says is irrational fear.2007-03-14T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=5526By Karl K. Szpunar, Ph.D. and Kathleen B. McDermott, Ph.D.  Remembering experiences in our past and imagining ourselves in some future event both involve a kind of mental "time travel" based in our brains.2007-02-15T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=5704By Lynn Nadel, Ph.D. Book Review: Beyond 9 to 5: Your Life in Time by Sarah Norgate.  How our brains and minds handle time.2007-02-15T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=5522By Kayt Sukel and Russell Epstein, Ph.D.  What might architects learn from neuroscience that would help in designing better nursing homes and other facilities for the aging, particularly people with Alzheimer's disease?2007-01-15T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=5514By Silvia Helena Cardoso, Ph.D.  Happiness, which is good for both mind and body, is at least in part biological, rooted in the evolution of the brain and nervous system.2006-12-15T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=5506By Edward McKintosh, MRCS.  Book Review: Shattered Nerves: How Science is Solving Modern Medicine's Most Perplexing Problem by Victor Chase.  Stories of researchers and patients that engage the reader in understanding the development of "neural prostheses," devices that interact directly with the brain or nervous system to enable the deaf to hear, the blind to see, and the paralyzed to move.2006-12-15T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=5486By Paul M. Matthews, M.D.  The current arduous process of drug development may be improved through brain imaging.2006-11-15T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=5424By Paul M. Matthews, M.D.  After years of research and enormous expense, perhaps only one in a hundred potential drugs for a brain disorder will receive government approval and make it to the person who needs it. Neuroimaging may change this dramatically.2006-11-15T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=74By Gisela Kaplan, Ph.D., and Lesley J. Rogers, D.Phil., D.Sc.  Art in its myriad forms has long been seen as a uniquely human gift, evidence of our advanced cognitive abilities and consciousness. In contrast, scientists have understood all animal behavior as having survival value alone. But a magpie singing to itself embellishes its song with trills, overtones, and a unique closing phrase, and animals as diverse as elephants, chimpanzees, and seals appear to enjoy painting. Two Australian scientists—Lesley J. Rogers, D. Phil., D.Sc., professor of neuroscience and founder of the Research Centre for Neuroscience and Animal Behaviour at the University of New England, Australia, and Gisela Kaplan, Ph.D., also a professor at the Research Centre—write that, in the face of growing evidence for animals’ complex cognitive abilities, we should not be too hasty in deciding whether what is art to us might also be art to them.2006-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=76By Jacek Debiec, M.D., Ph.D., and Margaret Altemus, M.D.  Whether the result of violence, war, or disaster, the intrusive memories that haunt people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) cannot always be healed through psychotherapy or current medications. Now research on the biological basis of memory offers the hope of new drug treatments that may be able to lessen the disabling fear associated with traumatic memories and perhaps even fundamentally alter them. The authors argue that this possibility raises profound ethical and philosophical questions that must be examined even as researchers work to relieve the suffering of PTSD.2006-09-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=98By Diane C. Chugani, Ph.D., and Kayt Sukel.  What if we could identify some common process that goes awry in the developing brain of a child and leads to errors in wiring that cause the devastating symptoms of autism? What if, understanding that malfunction, we could intervene with drugs and behavioral therapies that don’t just mask symptoms but actually bring the child’s brain development back on course? Wayne State University professor of pediatrics and radiology Diane C. Chugani, Ph.D., describes new insights achieved through molecular neuroimaging that may —repeat, may—change how we understand and treat autism.2006-08-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=116By David Huron, Ph.D.  Book Review: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession by Daniel J. Levitin2006-08-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=142By Kevin J. Tracey, M.D.  Book Review: A Story of Science, a Story of Grief Billy’s Halo: Love, Science and My Father’s Death by Ruth McKernan.  This book is McKernan’s chronicle of Billy’s illnesses, dissected into simple, factual prose, not at all unlike what you might find scrawled in the margins of Ruth’s laboratory notebook. Unlike a sterile lab notebook, however, Billy’s Halo places the science within the context of Billy’s life and times through anecdotes that bring both Billy and the science to life. The result is a compelling summary of what Ruth came to understand about her father’s life-threatening infection and leukemia.2006-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=124By Cynthia A. Read.  An interdisciplinary group of neuroscientists, scholars, and clinicians has followed the lead of the geneticists and, in May, met at Asilomar to discuss the social, legal, ethical, and policy implications of advances in brain research. 2006-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=114By Bruce Hood, Ph.D.  The brains of even young babies not only organize sensory information but supply what is missing, determine cause and effect, and use the information to generate theories about how the world operates. Such natural intuitive reasoning persists when we become adults, says British cognitive neuroscientist Bruce Hood, Ph.D., and may underlie the tendency of even the most rational of us to believe in supernatural phenomena. At its distorted extreme, such reasoning can cause the paranoid delusions of schizophrenia. But sensing connections where others do not can be a hallmark of creativity and even scientific discovery.2006-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=132By Jerome Kagan, Ph.D.  In his new memoir, An Argument for Mind, Kagan recounts dramatic changes in psychology’s assumptions and methods over the past half century, set in the context of his own career studying child development and temperament. The relation of brain function to behavior holds a central place in contemporary psychology. But in “Celebrating Mind,” the penultimate chapter of An Argument for Mind from which this excerpt is taken, Kagan explains why he believes that neuroscience can never entirely replace psychology and describes some of the challenges and gifts that each field brings to the other.2006-06-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=128By Henry T. Greely, J.D.  Like all tools, scientific advances may be used for good or for ill. As our knowledge about the human brain increases, we will certainly use that knowledge to relieve human suffering in profound and wonderful ways. But the vast promise of the science should not blind us to the possibilities of its misuse. I believe those involved in human neuroscience need to pay attention to the risks that come with the science and to accept the duty to minimize any harm it could cause.2006-06-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=138Are We in the Dark About Sleepwalking’s Dangers? 2006-05-01 false When most people sleep, the brain causes both the conscious mind and the body to rest, and, during the dreaming stages of sleep, a loss of muscle tone prevents movement. In sleepwalkers, however, this process goes awry. Sleep2006-05-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=148Unshackling the Slaves of Obsession and Compulsion A Brain Science Success Story 2006-04-01 false For more than a century, scientists sought the explanation of a disorder affecting millions—obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)—in child-rearing practices or personality conflicts and prescribed2006-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=618A Brain Built for Fair Play 2006-03-01 false As scientists and society as a whole are facing the ethical questions inherent in brain science, researchers are beginning to explore the biological nature of ethical behavior. Rockefeller University neuroscientist Donald W. Pfaff, Ph.D., propose2006-03-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=622In Search of Memory The Emergence of a New Science of Mind 2006-03-01 false In Search of Memory Neuroscientist Eric Kandel’s new memoir covers more than six decades, beginning with his experiences as a nine-year-old child in Nazi-occupied Vienna. He considers those powerful memories the touc2006-03-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=628Why Not a National Institute on Pain Research? 2006-02-01 false Today, patients who once would have lived in chronic pain or died in agony can be helped because research has debunked many myths about our most potent pain medication: opioids. Even long-term treatment with opioids seldom lead2006-02-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=680Improving Stroke Prevention and Treatment Now 2006-01-01 false true During the past 25 years, more advances were made than ever before in our understanding of strokes and in our ability to prevent and treat them. Technology is readily available that can quickly2006-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=688Searching for a New Strategy to Protect the Brain 2006-01-01 false true Tasha awoke early, unable to feel the right side of her face: it was numb. At first, she thought she was still dreaming, but she heard her husband downstairs in the kitchen, and knew that she w2006-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=632A Young Mind in a Growing Brain Building a Bridge Between Brain Science and Education 2005-10-01 false A Young Mind in a Growing Brain Jerome Kagan and Norbert Herschkowitz 2005-01-01 In his widely quoted 1997 article “Education and Neuroscience: A Bridge Too Far2005-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=638Challenges of the Scientist Turned Science Writer Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals 2005-10-01 false Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals Robert M. Sapolsky 2005-01-01 In the aftermath of severe emotional trauma, it is not uncommo2005-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=662Cognitive Fitness for the Older and Wiser 2005-10-01 false true Scientists have assumed the relationship between the dominant and non-dominant hemispheres of our brain is fixed. Not so, argues Goldberg: Mentally active people continue to develop their dominant hemisphere throughout their l2005-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=740Cooling It 2005-10-01 false true Cooling It Occasionally someone drowns in ice-cold water but is rescued and revived, with few permanent ill effects. The person’s brain has achieved this seeming miracle by doing what a hibernating bear’s brain does: slowing down temporarily to almost el2005-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=652Four Fictional Odysseys Through Life With a Disordered Brain 2005-10-01 false A brain-damaged detective, an autistic young man in a future world who wonders if he wants to be “cured,” a nun who experiences God in her epileptic seizures: They are just a few of the protagonists in novels abo2005-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=656Left Hand, Left Brain: The Plot Thickens 2005-10-01 false Much provocative research on left-handed people points to links between left-handedness and, for example, talent for music and mathematics, but also with autism and schizophrenia. Underlying these links, scientists have suspected, ma2005-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=644The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius 2005-10-01 false The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius 2005-01-01 Michelangelo was a stonecutter’s son, Shakespeare the son of a tradesman. What caused them to soar free of apparently ordinary origins to create works of genius? Psychia2005-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=648The End of Sex as We Know It 2005-10-01 false Are male and female brains different in ways that relate not just to sexuality and reproduction, but to intellectual potential, talents, and interests? Recent neuroscience research is showing that, from the earliest stages of development, male2005-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=634The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education Building a Bridge Between Brain Science and Education 2005-10-01 false The Learning Brain: Lessons for Education Uta Frith and Sarah-Jayne Blakemore 2005-01-01 In his widely quoted 1997 article “Education and Neuroscience:2005-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=640The Tumultuous Birth of Brain Chemistry The War of the Soups and the Sparks: The Discovery of Neurotransmitters and the Dispute Over How Nerves Communicate 2005-10-01 false The War of the Soups and the Sparks: The Discovery of Neurotransmitters and the Dispute Over How Nerves Communicate Elliot S. V2005-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=780 Cutting Edge Psychiatry 2005-07-01 false Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine Andrew Scull 2005-01-01   Encouraged by bacteriological discoveries, leaders of early-20th-century medicine hoped to reduce the causes of all di2005-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=748By Lee Alan Dugatkin, Ph.D.  To what extent is our economic behavior a rational weighing of alternatives based on our self- interest? Certainly, economists and public policy makers have relied on the concept of self-interest to interpret and predict how people will behave in the marketplace. But why, then, do areas of our brain associated with emotions become so active when we make economic decisions? The author analyzes what research on cooperation and fairness tells us about our real-life decisions when getting and spending.2005-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=744Fearful Symmetry Probing the Limits of Brain Modeling 2005-07-01 false A scientist who hypothesizes that a certain process may occur in the brain can test the idea by seeing if a working computer model of the process can be made. If so, the scientist can go back to the lab with a better ide2005-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=784Neuroscience and the Afterlife 2005-07-01 false Mortal Minds: The Biology of Near-Death Experiences G. M. Woerlee 2005-01-01   In 1922, after a search that began in Egypt in 1891, British archeologist Howard Carter finally discovered the Tomb of2005-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=768No Child Left Without a Brain Scan? Toward a Pediatric Neuroethics 2005-07-01 false Will my baby be born with a normal, healthy brain? Are neurological problems getting in the way of my child’s learning? Does my teenager have any special vulnerability to emotional disorders? Many parents a2005-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=758Reversing Sudden Deafness 2005-07-01 false Hearing loss is a growing problem as more people live longer. Unfortunately, scientists know relatively little about the mostly irreversible kind of deafness caused by damage to the nerves that conduct information about sound to the brain. That ma2005-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=752Searching for a Drug to Extinguish Fear 2005-07-01 false Anxiety is sometimes diffuse, generalized, but many people struggle with more specific fears in such forms as phobias (for example, fear of heights, public speaking, or crowds), panic attacks, or posttraumatic stress disorder. Resear2005-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=774The Ethical Brain 2005-07-01 false true The Ethical Brain Michael S. Gazzaniga, Ph.D 2005-01-01 “This is a book about an emerging field,” writes Michael Gazzaniga, a renowned brain scientist who has served on the President’s Council on Bioethics since 2001. “I would define neuroethics as t2005-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=852A Turbocharged America with a Psychiatric Problem? American Mania: When More Is Not Enough 2005-04-01 false American Mania: When More Is Not Enough Peter C. Whybrow 2005-01-01   Peter Whybrow, M.D., professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sci2005-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=798Bird Brain? It May Be A Compliment! 2005-04-01 false Chickens, supposedly the ultimate “bird brains,” give a different warning cry when they spot a predator overhead or on the ground—and they only give a cry when other chickens are present. This surprises many scientists, who have long ass2005-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=844Good Science, Strong Politics, Questionable Combination The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow’s Neuroscience 2005-04-01 false The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow’s Neuroscience Steven Rose 2005-01-01  2005-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=806How Addiction Hijacks Our Reward System 2005-04-01 false true Can we be addicted to chocolate? Football? Blackjack? Using brain-imaging, scientists have begun to understand that true addiction involves a hijacking of the brain’s circuitry, a reprogramming of its reward system, and lasting2005-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=848Just How Jolly Good is Exuberance? Exuberance: The Passion for Life 2005-04-01 false Exuberance: The Passion for Life Kay Redfield Jamison 2004-01-01   What do Theodore Roosevelt, young elephants, and a sky full of stars have in common? Accordi2005-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=808Mental Retardation: Struggle, Stigma, Science 2005-04-01 false true Some six million Americans meet the criteria for mental retardation, but that broad category necessarily obscures a multitude of separate causes, including a thousand or so different genetic causes. Scientists are investi2005-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=788Taste, Our Body’s Gustatory Gatekeeper 2005-04-01 false true Did you ever hear that “90 percent of flavor comes from our sense of smell”? No one can cite any basis for that statistic, but it reflects a common belief that taste is a “minor” sense. In fact, the author argues, taste is so im2005-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=794The Inner Lives of Disordered Brains 2005-04-01 false true One popular new novel is narrated by a boy with autism, another by a nun with epilepsy, a third by a man with Tourette syndrome. These are stories very different from the classic neurological case history, but, thanks to the pione2005-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=834The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older 2005-04-01 false true Although we commonly dwell on the ways our brains decline as we age, in The Wisdom Paradox, neurologist Goldberg proclaims that the wisdom we associate with older people is also biological.2005-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=856An Outsider’s Fresh Model of the Thinking Brain On Intelligence 2005-01-01 false On Intelligence Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee 2004-01-01   On Intelligence is a book about the brain written by the man whose high-tech innovations fueled the succ2005-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=840Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior 2005-01-01 false true If its guiding hypothesis is correct, this book may be the closest we are likely to come to a direct report from an animal about how it thinks, feels, and experiences the world. Grandin,2005-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=816Astronauts Study the Brain in Space 2005-01-01 false true The Neurolab space shuttle mission carried aloft seven astronaut/scientists, including physician Jay Buckey, who performed dozens of experiments. How does our sense of balance respond to the weightlessness of space? What about bloo2005-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=824Dawning Hope for “the Other Dementia” 2005-01-01 false true While Alzheimer’s disease tends to strike people in their sixties and older and to manifest itself as memory loss, another kind of dementia strikes its victims in their fifties and zeroes in on the executive region of the brain,2005-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=828Paradoxical Profile: Alcohol’s Risks and Benefits 2005-01-01 false true New research suggests that the effects of alcohol, and particularly in its interaction with the brain at every stage of life, are more complex than scientists once believed. Tiny amounts of alcohol in the womb can deva2005-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=864Still Deferring to Descartes? Mind: A Brief Introduction 2005-01-01 false Mind: A Brief Introduction John R. Searle 2004-01-01   Philosophy of mind is the effort to understand the nature and constitution of the mind, its relationship to the body, a2005-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=868The Computer That Started It All Imitation of Life: How Biology is Inspiring Computing 2005-01-01 false Imitation of Life: How Biology is Inspiring Computing Nancy Forbes 2004-01-01   One way to boost our military capabilities is to create faster,2005-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=860The Deceptive World of Subjective Awareness Part 1 Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness 2005-01-01 false Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness Benjamin Libet 2004-01-01 Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness2005-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=832Why the White Brain Matters 2005-01-01 false true Perhaps it is harmless, in everyday thinking, to equate the brain with “gray matter.” But if you want to know how brain changes affect behavior, or what causes brain disorders from Alzheimer’s disease to multiple sclerosis, focusing on onl2005-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1200A Fish Story? Brain Maps, Lie Detection, and Personhood 2004-10-01 false Wouldn’t it be nice if a machine could tell us when someone is not telling the truth and whether the transgression is just a minor deception or a dangerous lie? Despite progress in technologies such as “brain fingerpr2004-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1286Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness A Report of the President’s Council on Bioethics 2004-10-01 false In a chapter titled “Ageless Bodies,” the President’s council’s report considered the progress in research aimed at mitigating the normal changes and preventing the2004-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1212DARPA on Your Mind 2004-10-01 false Think your brain is being controlled or disrupted by the Pentagon? You risk being called a nut, but the notion is not so far-fetched. Current research at the intersection of neuroscience and national security might one day produce weapons that literally2004-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1094Ethical Issues in Taking Neuroscience Research from Bench to Bedside 2004-10-01 false true Advances in brain science have been dramatic, but fulfilling their promise of practical health applications will require researchers to be especially sensitive in testing human subjects and interpre2004-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1090Everyday Neuromorality 2004-10-01 false true Neuroimaged views of our brains, aside from their medical value, could, in principle, pose challenges to our senses of freedom and moral responsibility, and render us easily manipulable. But we are not so frail, either personally or socially. S2004-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1302Introduction: The Brain’s Special Status 2004-10-01 false Building on traditional ethics and the more recent bioethics, a new discipline—“neuroethics”—is now here to help the world deal with advances in brain science. In his introduction to this special issue of Cerebrum, Harvard provost St2004-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1084Memory: Pandora’s Hippocampus? 2004-10-01 false true Our ability to intervene—not only to treat the ill but also to build up the healthy—is becoming increasingly likely as neuroscience progresses. Memory in particular could be a prime target for biological intervention. But unless we proc2004-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1218Models for the Neuroethical Debate in the Community 2004-10-01 false A “deliberative” citizen-forum model, as opposed to debates, would be a powerful way to help nonscientists discover and consider the ethical issues and policy ramifications of the coming neuroscience revolution. Participa2004-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1080Neuroethics: A Guide for the Perplexed 2004-10-01 false true Neuroethics has made a quick start sizing up many practical—and some unique—questions swirling up from brain science. But as neuroscience increasingly associates mental processes with the physical operations of neural tissue, ne2004-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1204 New Neuroscience, Old Problems: Legal Implications of Brain Science 2004-10-01 false Neuroscience discoveries that increase our understanding and control of human behavior are being closely watched by professionals in the justice system. So far, the established notions of personhood and re2004-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1086Seeking More Goodly Creatures 2004-10-01 false true If you’d like to engineer your unborn child into an Albert Einstein, Placido Domingo, or Sandra Day O’Connor courtesy of molecular biology, be prepared for a long wait before sufficient knowledge is available, if ever. Meanwhile, a minef2004-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1076Shall We Enhance? A Debate 2004-10-01 false true Your kid’s schoolwork not up to par? Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right? Any other problems caused by a mind’s eye seemingly not quite on the ball? Answers might lie in a brain-enhancing pill. Some argue this is merely better living through chemi2004-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1278The Idea That Scandalized Brain Science 2004-10-01 false Many neuroscientists say that the most startling about-face in their field has been the abandonment of the idea, once gospel, that the adult central nervous system has a fixed endpoint of development. Since no new nerve cells ever gr2004-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1222About Faces, in Art and in the Brain 2004-07-01 false What’s in a face? For primitive man, expressions that broadcast intentions such as aggression or cooperation may have required quick interpretation to ensure survival. Did the human brain evolve to reflect the life-and-death importance2004-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1322Asking “How?” Versus Asking “Why?” Why Men Won’t Ask for Directions: The Seductions of Sociobiology 2004-07-01 false Why Men Won’t Ask for Directions: The Seductions of Sociobiology Richard C. Francis 2004-01-01   When looking at the extraordinary2004-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1318Bioethics: Is Enhancement Right? Wondergenes: Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Society 2004-07-01 false Wondergenes: Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Society Maxwell J. Mehlman 2003-01-01   By now we all know that the large, red, smooth t2004-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1224Computer Vision and the Dream of the Cyborg 2004-07-01 false Two major information-processing systems exist in the world today: brains and computers. Can we merge them, creating the “cyborg” beloved of science fiction writers? Can we plug a computer into a brain so that computer signals ar2004-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1228Fine-Tuning the Baby Brain 2004-07-01 false When a baby is born, its brain is just beginning to develop. But within two years, that brain will have more connections than it ever will again, and it will be consuming twice as much energy as an adult brain. Scientists are now discovering that2004-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1326How Truth Molds the Brain (and the Civilized Society) The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge 2004-07-01 false The Physiology of Truth: Neuroscience and Human Knowledge Jean-Pierre Changeux 2004-01-01   The title chosen for this E2004-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1232Not What, But Where, Is Your “Self”? 2004-07-01 false To us, it seems as natural as breathing, but a cardinal aspect of human consciousness—shared by few, if any, other species—is the sense of self. This sense is not necessary to awareness, as such; so how do we come by this distinctively h2004-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1236Scientists, Families, and Courts Clash Over the Elusive Causes of Autism 2004-07-01 false Discovery that a child is autistic changes forever a parent’s hopes and dreams. Thus, when a British medical journal reported that childhood vaccinations might be a cause of autism, a storm of anxiety2004-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1296The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach 2004-07-01 false “The major unsolved problem in biology,” wrote the late Francis Crick in the preface to The Quest for Consciousness, is how matter—the brain—gives rise to awareness. Collaborators until Crick’s death in 2004, Koch and2004-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1342“Ourselves To Know”: Books from Scientists of the Dana Alliance 2004-04-01 false Scientists of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives explain their research to the public in forums ranging from lectures to laboratory tours. From 2000–2003, Alliance members also published 30 books for gene2004-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1254Architecture with the Brain in Mind 2004-04-01 false Architects have always known that their designs could influence the way we work, relax, learn, or heal. But it required brain research to demonstrate how the design of neonatal care units affect development of a newborn’s vision, or how2004-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1240Are We Trying to Banish Biological Time? 2004-04-01 false Tiny clusters of brain cells called the suprachiasmatic nuclei link the functioning of our bodies to the alternation of day and night. Such a link appears to have existed in animal species for some 700 million years. What happens wh2004-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1328Do Animals Think? Human and Animal Intelligence: The Gap is A Chasm 2004-04-01 false Do Animals Think? Clive D. L. Wynne 2004-01-01 Perhaps I have read too many popular books about animal intelligence over the past 20 years, but they generally hold few surprises fo2004-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1332Human and Animal Intelligence: The Gap is A Chasm Animal Talk: Breaking the Codes of Animal Language 2004-04-01 false Animal Talk: Breaking the Codes of Animal Language Tim Friend 2004-01-01   Perhaps I have read too many popular books about animal2004-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1244Neither Gods nor Demons But Misfiring Brains 2004-04-01 false In a simple descriptive phrase, epilepsy is sometimes called a “misfiring of the brain,” but little about epilepsy is simple. One of the longest known disorders, epileptic seizures have been viewed as divine, devilish, or repulsiv2004-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1248Neuroscience and the Soul: The Dualism of John Carew Eccles 2004-04-01 false Understanding the relationship between brain and mind is one of neuroscience’s urgent quests. To John Eccles, awarded a Nobel Prize in 1963 for research on the biology of nerve cells, the basic answer was evident:2004-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1336The Birth of Modern Brain Science Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain—and How It Changed the World 2004-04-01 false Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain—and How It Changed the World Carl Zimmer 2004-01-01 No less a luminary than Sir Charles Sherringt2004-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1306The Mind at Night 2004-04-01 false 2004-01-01 more about sleep and dreaming. The question, after all, is not so much “What we are doing?” as “For what purpose”? In The Mind at Night, Andrea Rock tells the story of research into critical connections between sleep and memory, learning, creati2004-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1350To Know Your Mind, Understand Your Brain Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life 2004-04-01 false Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life Steven Johnson 2004-01-01 How is our ability to peer inside the2004-04-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1364A Likely Story: Brains, Minds, and Hyperspaces Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness 2004-01-01 false Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness Dan Lloyd 2003-01-01 The brain is a story, something to interpret. Perhaps that is the best sci2004-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1282 A Neuroscientist Thinks About Menopause (If Her Hormones Are Willing) 2004-01-01 false Deciding whether to have hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is becoming much more complicated for menopausal women as studies reveal new risks. For one neuroscientist2004-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1366Antidepressants: Progress or Promotion? 2004-01-01 false Some leading drug companies are promising that a new generation of antidepressants is on the way. That would be welcome, comments the author, because today’s medications fail to help a significant percentage of patients, especially t2004-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1258Fading Minds and Hanging Chads: Alzheimer’s Disease and the Right to Vote 2004-01-01 false Alzheimer’s disease or other causes of dementia afflict as many as 4 million Americans. As they experience gradual but inexorable cognitive failure, many continue to vote—often guided by nursing home2004-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1312How Memory Works, Plays, and Puzzles Us 2004-01-01 false In her latest book, An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain, poet, naturalist, and science writer Diane Ackerman seeks to capture the limitless, kaleidoscopic reality of the human brain’s potential with science and po2004-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1284New Insights into Temperament 2004-01-01 false A child’s temperament, discernable at four months of age, persists as the child gets older. A pioneer of the research that has made human temperament one of the most rigorously defined aspects of personality reports that differences in tempera2004-01-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1354The Criminal Brain: A View from the Bench Exploring the Criminal Mind 2004-01-01 false Exploring the Criminal Mind Jens-Jacob Sander 2003-01-01 What goes on in the minds of criminals? 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Now scientists are paving2003-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2694Feeling Good About Antidepressants Better Than Prozac Creating the Next Generation of Psychiatric Drugs 2003 10 01 false Better Than Prozac Creating the Next Generation of Psychiatric Drugs Samuel2003-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2822Fire and Flood The Brain in Crisis Back from the Brink 2003 10 01 false When Gail Beck was brought to Columbia’s New York Presbyterian Neurological2003-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1274Hope for “Comatose” Patients 2003-10-01 false Headlines proclaimed a miracle when Terry Wallis, unconscious for 19 years, murmured “Mom” and re-entered the world. 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McGaugh2003-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2696Piece of His Mind Into the Silent Land Travels in Neuropsychology 2003 10 01 false Into the Silent Land Travels in Neuropsychology Paul Broks 2003 01 012003-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2964Seeking the Right Answers About Right Brain Left Brain 2003 10 01 false About 150 years ago, scientists realized that the right and left sides of2003-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1276The Terry Schiavo Case 2003-10-01 false The plight of Terry Schiavo, the young woman at the center of the much-publicized legal battle in Florida, illustrates the devastation of the chronic vegetative state following anoxic injury (one that deprives the brain of ox2003-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2966Three Nobelists Ask Are We Ready for the Next Frontier? 2003 10 01 false Sydney Brenner, Robert Horvitz, and John Sulston shared a 2002 Nobel2003-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2702When Technology Becomes Us Natural Born Cyborgs Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence 2003 10 01 false Natural Born Cyborgs Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence2003-10-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2946A Jangling Journey Life with Tourette Syndrome 2003 07 01 false “It is Tuesday, now, and a very calm morning. I am pretty sure I2003-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2688A Neurologist Confronts Ultimate Questions Consciousness A User’s Guide 2003 07 01 false Consciousness A User’s Guide Adam Zeman 2002 01 012003-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2942Beyond Raging Hormones The Tinderbox in the Teenage Brain 2003 07 01 false Puberty brings hormonal changes, intense feelings, and craving for arousal, but, writes2003-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2934Climb Aboard Neuroimmunology Is Leaving the Station 2003 07 01 false Neuroimmunology took off because two established disciplines began to find surprising connections where only2003-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2938Deserving the Last Great Gift 2003 07 01 false Almost unknown three decades ago, research on the postmortem brain today engages scientists worldwide. Their work depends2003-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2690Is the “Culture of Impatience” Short Circuiting Our Brains? The New Brain How the Modern Age Is Rewiring Your Mind 2003 07 01 false The New Brain How the Modern2003-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2950The Brain on Night Shift 2003 07 01 false There are people who lash themselves to their beds to guard against violently acting out their dreams.2003-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2818The Myth of Inevitable Nature and Reversible Nurture Nature Via Nurture Genes, Experience, & What Makes Us Human 2003 07 01 false “I intend to2003-07-01T13:00 http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2680Determined to be Free Freedom Evolves 2003 04 01 false Freedom Evolves Daniel C. 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