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Secrets to a happy life • Nobel’s gender problem • The OCD brain JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2018 | MIND.SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM Some scie ...

Strolling along on a crisp fall day last weekend, I found myself completely engaged in the moment: the arresting beauty of the a ...

News 4 Concussion Recovery Is Slower in Girls, Mounting Evidence Suggests 9 Link between Adolescent Pot Smoking and Psychosis St ...

Concussion Recovery Is Slower in Girls, Mounting Evidence Suggests NEWS IMAGE SOURCE A new study adds to findings that female ch ...

R ecovering from a concussion typi- cally takes female athletes more than twice as long as males, accord- ing to a new study tha ...

the American Osteopathic Association. After a concussion, some individuals ex- perience migraines and mental health is- sues, su ...

energy). A woman’s menstrual cycle may also directly impact recovery—one 2014 study of 144 women reported brain injuries during ...

Ultimately, Prins says, researchers need an objective test to determine whether an individual has had a concussion. Scientists a ...

Link between Adolescent Pot Smoking and Psychosis Strengthens Research presented at a Berlin psychiatric conference shows teenag ...

S ociety’s embrace of cannabis to treat nausea, pain and other conditions proceeds apace with the drive to le- galize the plant ...

among women. But according to other data, during the time when usage was thought to have grown most (1996 to 2005), the number o ...

What makes some people more crea tive than others? For $9.99, this special edition explores the intricacies of crea tivity from ...

The U.S. Is Retreating from Religion By 2030, say projections, a third of Americans will have no religious preference  NEWS DRFE ...

S ince 1990, the fraction of Americans with no religious affiliation has near- ly tripled, from about 8 percent to 22 percent. O ...

able. At any point another “Great Awaken- ing” could reverse these trends. But among social changes, demographic predictions are ...

The Neuroscience of Paid Parental Leave NEWS HALFPOINT GETTY IMAGES Having parents present is crucial during an infant’s first w ...

A s a new father, I’ve learned that the U.S. ranks at the very bottom of industrialized nations for paid parental leave. Denmark ...

have a larger amygdala than their non-ad- opted counterparts, suggesting grossly and irreversibly altered emotion and fear pro- ...

es. So why don’t highly skilled laborers who work 80-hour weeks in evidence-based med- icine not receive an evidence-based paren ...

Where’s the Proof The ubiquitous technique for relieving stress and pain has remarkably little scientific evidence backing it, a ...