April/May 2007
Scientific American Mind

Cover; April/May 2007; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

From the Editor; April/May 2007; by Mariette DiChristina; 1 Page(s)

Feast, Famine, Freedom

Table of Contents; April/May 2007; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Letters; April/May 2007; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Head Lines; April/May 2007; by Melinda Wenner, Kurt Kleiner, Kaspar Mossman, Mason Inman, Jonathan Beard, Karen A. Frenkel, Karen Schrock; 7 Page(s)

On the Other Hand; Bigger Anesthetics May Be Better; Something, Um, Unexpected; Put Your Money Where Your Mind Is; The Prodigal Mind; Fighting Stress with Stress Hormones; Being Perfectly Bossy; Tinkering with Our Clock; The Medication Munchies Mystery; Drinking Is No Joke; Another Reason to Thank Mom

Staving off Dementia; April/May 2007; by Andrew Klein; 2 Page(s)

Marijuana's active ingredient may help stall Alzheimer's disease

I Think, Therefore I Err?; April/May 2007; by S. Alexander Haslam; 2 Page(s)

Research explores when we can make a vital decision quickly and when we need to proceed more deliberately

Illusions: Paradoxical Perceptions; April/May 2007; by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran; 3 Page(s)

How does the brain sort out contradictory images?

Calendar; April/May 2007; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Exhibitions, conferences, movies and more

Listening with Your Eyes; April/May 2007; by Christoph Kayser; 6 Page(s)

To perceive the world as a whole, our five senses have to team up in the brain--and in some cases, they actually seem to fuse with one another

Through a Glass, Darkly; April/May 2007; by Christian Eggers and Verena Liebers; 6 Page(s)

A distorted body image is symptomatic of nearly all eating disorders. Correcting this mental reflection can help sufferers recover

Addicted to Food?; April/May 2007; by Oliver Grimm; 4 Page(s)

What drives people, against their better judgment, to eat more food than they need? Scientists look to the brain for answers

Freeing a Locked-In Mind; April/May 2007; by Karen Schrock; 6 Page(s)

Vegetative patients may soon be able to communicate with the outside world

The Pain Gate; April/May 2007; by David Dobbs; 8 Page(s)

A rare disorder brings insights into the nature of pain

The Myth of the Teen Brain; April/May 2007; by Robert Epstein; 8 Page(s)

We blame teen turmoil on immature brains. But did the brains cause the turmoil, or did the turmoil shape the brains?

Chips in Your Head; April/May 2007; by Frank W. Ohl and Henning Scheich; 6 Page(s)

Damaged or diseased brains could soon get a boost from implanted prosthetics

Lithium's Healing Power; April/May 2007; by Jochen Paulus; 6 Page(s)

Surprising new findings hint that lithium may offer hope as a treatment for neurological ailments such as Alzheimer's disease and stroke

A Personal Obsession; April/May 2007; by Isabel Wondrak and Jens Hoffmann; 6 Page(s)

What drives stalkers to pursue their victims?

Autism: An Epidemic?; April/May 2007; by Scott O. Lilienfeld and Hal Arkowitz; 2 Page(s)

A closer look at the statistics suggests something more than a simple rise in incidence

Mind Reads; April/May 2007; by Kurt Kleiner, Nicole Branan, Ken Silber; 2 Page(s)

Reviews of Shattered Nerves by Victor D. Chase; The Genius Engine by Kathleen Stein; The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge; and The Accidental Mind by David J. Linden

Ask the Brains; April/May 2007; by Andrea Halpern, Mark A. W. Andrews; 1 Page(s)

Why is it that after listening to music, the last song you hear sometimes replays in your mind for several minutes after the music stops? Why doesn't the human brain have pain receptors?

Head Games; April/May 2007; by Abbie F. Salny; 1 Page(s)

Match wits with the Mensa puzzler