June 2005
Scientific American Mind

Cover; June 2005; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; June 2005; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

From the Editor; June 2005; by Mariette DiChristina; 1 Page(s)

True Lies

Head Lines; June 2005; by Aimee Cunningham, Jonathan Beard, Nicole Garbarini, Jamie Talan, Mark Fischetti; 4 Page(s)

Can They Hear Us?; Whistle Spoken Here; Personality in Hand; Where Addiction Lies; Cooling Hot Aggression; New View on Autism; Replacing Hamilton; Teen Control Backfires; Delaying Dementia; Alzheimer's Jam

Experience versus Speed; June 2005; by Marion Sonnenmoser; 2 Page(s)

Certain mental functions slow down with age, but the brain compensates in ways that can keep seniors just as sharp as youngsters

The Ethics of Scan and Tell; June 2005; by Jamie Talan; 2 Page(s)

You volunteer as a normal subject for a study involving brain scans. Then researchers spot something abnormal in your head. Should they tell you?

Psychotherapy Lite; June 2005; by Susanne Kemmer; 2 Page(s)

Neurolinguistic programming has become a favored pop psychology technique because it is easy to follow. But does it work?

Natural-Born Liars; June 2005; by David Livingstone Smith; 8 Page(s)

Why do we lie, and why are we so good at it? Because it works

True Crimes, False Confessions; June 2005; by Saul M. Kassin and Gisli H. Gudjonsson; 8 Page(s)

Why do innocent people confess to crimes they did not commit?

The Quest of Christof Koch; June 2005; by David Dobbs; 6 Page(s)

For this mountain-climbing neuroscientist, explaining consciousness is the ultimate extreme sport

Sweet Dreams Are Made of This; June 2005; by Gerhard Kl¿sch and Ulrich Kraft; 8 Page(s)

What are dreams? Why do we have them? The answers are as intriguing as dreams themselves

The Truth and the Hype of Hypnosis; June 2005; by Michael R. Nash and Grant Benham; 8 Page(s)

Though often denigrated as fakery or wishful thinking, hypnosis has been shown to be a real phenomenon with a variety of therapeutic uses--especially in controlling pain

A Great Attraction; June 2005; by Hubertus Breuer; 6 Page(s)

Magnetically stimulating the brain could lift depression and perhaps even boost creativity, but questions remain

Your Own Hall of Memories; June 2005; by Michael Spang; 6 Page(s)

Want to improve your recall? Borrow a trick from the Greeks and Romans

Head Attack; June 2005; by Michael Feld and Johann Caspar R¿egg; 6 Page(s)

You're late, the traffic is a nightmare and you're yelling at the kids to stop fighting in the back. Is your mental stress putting you at greater risk for a heart attack?

Buy This; June 2005; by Annette Sch¿fer; 4 Page(s)

Companies spend billions on marketing campaigns, but neuroscientists could someday determine which ads best capture consumers' attention

Stopping the Bullies; June 2005; by Mechthild Sch¿fer; 6 Page(s)

School can be torture for children who are targeted by abusive students

Signing Gets a Scientific Voice; June 2005; by Jens Lubbadeh; 6 Page(s)

Sign language is as rich and complex as spoken communication, probably because the brain creates and deciphers it in the same way

Think Better: Taking the Reins; June 2005; by Maja Storch; 2 Page(s)

Self-control helps you meet small challenges, but to change your life significantly you'll need self-regulation instead

Live Better: Talk It Up; June 2005; by Olaf Schmidt; 2 Page(s)

Psychotherapy may help the large number of impotent men for whom drugs such as Viagra are not the answer

Mind Reads; June 2005; by Kenneth Silber, Aimee Cunningham, Richard Lipkin; 2 Page(s)

Reviews of Animals in Transalation by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson; Everything Bad Is Good for You by Steven Johnson; The Wisdom Paradox by Elkhonon Goldberg; The Lobotomist by Jack El-Hai

Head Games; June 2005; by Abbie F. Salny; 1 Page(s)

Match wits with the Mensa puzzler

Illusions: How Blind Are We?; June 2005; by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Diane Rogers-Ramachandran; 2 Page(s)

We have eyes, yet we do not see