December 2008/January 2009
Scientific American Mind

Cover; December 2008/January 2009; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

From the Editor; December 2008/January 2009; by Mariette DiChristina; 1 Page(s)

Charge Forward

Table of Contents; December 2008/January 2009; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Letters; December 2008/January 2009; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

Head Lines; December 2008/January 2009; by Rachel Mahan; Melinda Wenner; Nicole Branan; Rachel Dvoskin; Karen Schrock; Siri Carpenter; Aimee Cunningham; Erica Westly; 8 Page(s)

Schizophrenia's Roots; A Tough Pill to Swallow; A Bird in the Mirror; Wisdom of the Gut; The Perception of Self; It's In His Walk; Cut Up Those Cards; Soldiers Who Have Taken a Life Defend Iraq War More; Abortion Risk Reviewed; Mental Benefits; The Obesity Earache Link; More Than Flattery; Loneliness Really Feels Cold; Slow To Ignore; Food Fix; Psychiatry in Flux

Perspectives: The Truth About Hypocrisy; December 2008/January 2009; by Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse; 2 Page(s)

Charges of hypocrisy can be surprisingly irrelevant and often distract us from more important concerns

Consciousness Redux: What Is It Like to Be a Bee?; December 2008/January 2009; by Christof Koch; 2 Page(s)

Bees display a remarkable range of talents--abilities that in a mammal such as a dog we would associate with consciousness

Illusions: I See, But I Don't Know; December 2008/January 2009; by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran; 3 Page(s)

Patients with unusual visual deficits provide insights into how we normally see

Calendar; December 2008/January 2009; by Karen Schrock and Victoria Stern; 1 Page(s)

Exhibitions, conferences, movies and more

I'll Do It Tomorrow; December 2008/January 2009; by Trisha Gura; 8 Page(s)

A penchant for procrastination is damaging the careers, health and savings accounts of millions of Americans. Although biology is partly to blame for the foot-dragging, anyone can learn to kick the habit

Sparking Recovery with Brain "Pacemakers"; December 2008/January 2009; by Morten L. Kringelbach and Tipu Z. Aziz; 8 Page(s)

Applying electricity to the brain with deep-brain stimulation could ease Parkinson¿s disease, pain, depression, and more

Set In Our Ways; December 2008/January 2009; by Nikolas Westerhoff; 6 Page(s)

Millions of us dream of transforming our lives, but few of us are able to make major changes after our 20s. Here's why

Impact on the Brain; December 2008/January 2009; by Richard J. Roberts; 8 Page(s)

Mild traumatic brain injury represents a silent but brutal plague among combat veterans and a hidden threat to the health of civilians

Duct Tape for the Brain; December 2008/January 2009; by Lucas Laursen; 4 Page(s)

Low-tech emergency room therapies

Why Do Men Buy Sex?; December 2008/January 2009; by Nikolas Westerhoff; 6 Page(s)

Some researchers say johns seek intimacy on demand; others believe these men typically want to use and dominate women

Can a Robot, an Insect, or God Be Aware?; December 2008/January 2009; by Joshua Knobe; 4 Page(s)

Our intuitions about consciousness in other beings and objects reveal a lot about how we think

One World, Many Minds; December 2008/January 2009; by Paul Patton; 8 Page(s)

We are used to thinking of humans as occupying the sole pinnacle of evolutionary intelligence. That¿s where we¿re wrong

Facts and Fictions in Mental Health: Altered States; December 2008/January 2009; by Scott O. Lilienfeld and Hal Arkowitz; 2 Page(s)

Is hypnosis a distinct form of consciousness?

We're Only Human: Foraging in the Modern World; December 2008/January 2009; by Wray Herbert; 2 Page(s)

Some of us prefer the tried and true, and others search high and low for novelty. Why?

Reviews & Recommendations; December 2008/January 2009; by Nicole Branan, Melinda Wenner, David Dobbs, Rachel Mahan; 2 Page(s)

Born To Offend?; Blessing or Curse?; Comic Conversion; Best of the Web

Ask the Brains; December 2008/January 2009; by Randolph W. Evans, Christopher French; 1 Page(s)

Why am I sometimes awakened in the middle of the night by explosions going off in my head? What is sleep paralysis, and is it rare?

Head Games; December 2008/January 2009; by American Mensa; 1 Page(s)

Match wits with the Mensa puzzler