June/July 2008
Scientific American Mind

Cover; June/July 2008; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

From the Editor; June/July 2008; by Mariette DiChristina; 1 Page(s)

Out of the Box

Table of Contents; June/July 2008; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Letters; June/July 2008; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Head Lines; June/July 2008; by "Susannah F. Locke, Katherine Leitzell, Nicole Branan, JR Minkel, Lucas Laursen, Peter Sergo, Melinda Wenner, Victoria Stern, Christopher Intagliata, Melissa Mahony, Jane N. Kim, Lisa Conti, Rachel Mahan; 9 Page(s)

A Novel Chemical Target; The Other Brain Cells; She Never Forgets a Face; Learning With Language; The Roots of Creativity; Smokers' Choice; Big Brains Dominate; Autism and Antibodies; So Lonely It Hurts; Can You Read My Mind; Quieting the Brain; Moody Blood; The Cubicle Bully; Faux Sugar: Bittersweet; Put the Kid on the Stand

Perspectives: Character Attacks; June/July 2008; by Yvonne Raley; 2 Page(s)

A new theory parses fair from unfair uses of the ad hominem

Illusions: Sliding Stripes; June/July 2008; by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran; 3 Page(s)

A few simple experiments untangle the mysteries behind the Barber Pole Illusion

Calendar; June/July 2008; by Christopher Intagliata and Karen Schrock; 1 Page(s)

Exhibitions, conferences, movies and more

Let Your Creativity Soar; June/July 2008; by Mariette DiChristina, John Houtz, Julia Cameron and Robert Epstein; 8 Page(s)

Experts discuss tips and tricks to let loose your inner ingenuity

Spheres of Influence; June/July 2008; by Michael S. Gazzaniga; 8 Page(s)

Split-brain patients¿whose two hemispheres are separated surgically¿provide fascinating clues to how a unitary sense of consciousness emerges from the furious activity of billions of brain cells

The New Genetics of Mental Illness; June/July 2008; by Edmund S. Higgins; 8 Page(s)

Life's experiences add molecular switches to the genes that control our brain activity, affecting how susceptible we are to depression, anxiety and drug addiction

Unmasking Memory Genes; June/July 2008; by Amir Levine; 4 Page(s)

Molecules that expose our genes may also revive our recollections and our ability to learn

Scratch This!; June/July 2008; by Uwe Gieler and Bertram Walter; 8 Page(s)

How to get relief from the insatiable need to scratch

Additcted to Starvation; June/July 2008; by Trisha Gura; 8 Page(s)

Anorexia may represent a profound psychiatric disorder that spawns an addiction to deprivation

Bisexual Species; June/July 2008; by Emily V. Driscoll; 6 Page(s)

Homosexual behavior is common in nature, and it plays an important role in survival

Your Inner Spam Filter; June/July 2008; by Andrew W. McCollough and Edward K. Vogel; 4 Page(s)

What makes you so smart? Might be your lizard brain

Facts and Fictions in Mental Health; June/July 2008; by Scott O. Lilienfeld And Hal Arkowitz; 2 Page(s)

Is animal-assisted therapy the cat's meow or a red herring?

We're Only Human; June/July 2008; by Wray Herbert; 2 Page(s)

What fashion teaches us about the federation of ideas

Mind Reviews; June/July 2008; by David Dobbs, Nicole Branan, Melinda Wenner, Christopher Intagliata; 2 Page(s)

Batter Up; Size Matters; Hot-Wired Senses; Getting Psyched

Ask the Brains; June/July 2008; by Richard J. Haier and Susana Martinez-Conde; 1 Page(s)

What are ideas? How does being confident in your knowledge affect the way you apply that knowledge?

Head Games; June/July 2008; by American Mensa; 1 Page(s)

Match wits with the Mensa puzzler