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a white bottle of Oxycontin sits on a shelf.
Health & Medicine
How do our brains react to drugs? A former addict turned neuroscientist explains.
Heather Berlin
Culture
The neuroscience of creative flow
OxyContin
Medicine
The family that helped start the opioid crisis
What Happens When Your Unconscious Mind Is In Charge
boredom
Health
In praise of boredom: Researchers dish on the brain benefits of idle time
brains
Science
From Hollywood to here: ‘Rememory’ and the future of memory
US Air Force mental health
Health
Science has some good news for worriers
New lymphatic vessels
Science
Scientists have discovered the ‘missing link’ between the brain and the immune system
Actors Morgan Freeman and Scarlett Johansson star in the upcoming film "Lucy."
Arts, Culture & Media
Morgan Freeman’s new movie says you use just 10 percent of your brain. But think again
Environment
New research seeks to determine what dreams mean
Global Politics
Boys don’t do as well as girls in school – video games can help
Health & Medicine
Big pharma’s role in mental illness
Business, Economics and Jobs
Financial worries on the brain
Health & Medicine
Spain tackles eating disorders
Environment
Debate grows over fMRI scans
Environment
Oxytocin could play role in parenting behavior
Environment
How we remember
Your Stories of Near Death Experiences
Arts, Culture & Media
Mind Games: Designing with EEG
Science Note: Monkey Mind Control
How Neuroscience is Changing Teaching
Global Politics
Jaron Lanier: You Are Not a Gadget
Development & Education
New report questions value of single-sex schooling
Inside the Mind of Moammar Gadhafi
Arts, Culture & Media
Is the Internet a Drug?
Emerging Science Note/Science of Desire
Science Note
Eco IQ
Emerging Science Note/Schooled Sleep
Emerging Science Note/Rested Minstrel
Arts, Culture & Media
Windows to the Soul
Arts, Culture & Media
Your brain unwired
Health & Medicine
DIY checkup: sleep and health
Conflict & Justice
Science: A Brain’s Appetite
Environment
Attention! How To Lead A Focus-Driven Life
Environment
Keep your hands to yourself: Child abuse affects our genes
Business, Economics and Jobs
Neuroeconomics: This is your financial system on drugs
Business, Economics and Jobs
This is your (developing) brain on poverty
Business, Economics and Jobs
Neuroeconomics: how financial worries affect our brain
Environment
Debate grows over the over-interpretation and misuse of fMRI scans
Arts, Culture & Media
India’s 9/11
Arts, Culture & Media
Poetry of war in the Caucasus