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Decoding the Canine Mind

Curious about a dog’s perception of the world and how a pooch’s brain works? Gregory S. Berns uses brain scanning and other strategies to find answers.
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Jump-Starting Evolution

Three years after a best-selling book, a co-author explains how the silver fox-domestication experiment continues to help us better understand genetics and evolution.
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Feeling Our Way: The Challenge of Studying Emotion and the Brain

While scientists are learning how important emotional input is to nearly every aspect of cognition, behavior, and disease, understanding how that works is a tangled puzzle.
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Q&A with Diane B. Howieson, Ph.D

Gains and Losses as We Age

Neuropsychologist and Cerebrum author Diane B. Howieson leans on her research and clinical experience to elaborate on the aging brain and offer insights in some other areas.
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Maturing Intelligence

While our short-term memory ability may peak in youth, other cognitive skills hit their strides much later, researchers report from a series of crowd-sourced experiments.
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Your Brain and Heart Surgery

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.
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Cognitive Fitness for the Older and Wiser

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 lives, strengthening reasoning, memory, and emotional control.

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