Scientific American MIND – July-August, 2019, Volume 30, Number 4

JULY /AUGUST 2019 | MIND.SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM BRAIN SECRETS TO STAYING YOUNG An openness to new experiences can make you feel ...

Whether we want to or not, we all age. So it is no surprise that a vast consumer industry exists for all things antiag- ing—crea ...

July- August 2019 Volume 30 • No. 4 WHAT’S INSIDE GETTY IMAGES GETTY IMAGES FEATURES 15. In Search of a (Subjective) Fountain of ...

UCSF Scientists Take a Step Toward Decoding Speech from the Brain New study gets closer to restoring natural communication for t ...

because of a movement disorder such as cerebral palsy. Chang also emphasized that his approach cannot be used to read someone’s ...

U.C.S.F., another co-author of the study, said at the news conference. Sounds like the “sh” in “ship” were decoded particularly ...

allowing them to more accurately reproduce lapsed spans of time. While it doesn’t prove that micro- doses act as a novel cogniti ...

specific length of time, the subjects were asked to recreate that length of time by pressing a key. Typically, with longer time ...

disorders were often “hyperactive and said they felt well, and only started feeling poorly when we nourished them,” says Bulik, ...

always been a psychological explana- tion for that ... but what if that somehow is the survival of the bacterial fittest?” This ...

Just knowing whether adult neurons get replaced is a fascinating basic problem,” he says. New technologies that can locate cells ...

NEWS been linked to neurogenesis. Hsieh says her research on epilep- sy has found that newborn neurons get miswired, disrupting ...

assistant professor at Leiden Univer- sity’s Institute of Psychology, cites several examples of real-world problems from modern ...

tively “solve” the problem. Four categories of deci- sion-makers emerged. There were the altruists, who invested more than their ...

Research finds a fascinating connection between IQ and aging By David Z. Hambrick In Search of a (Subjective) Fountain of Yo u t ...

AS YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED AT YOUR LAST HIGH school reunion, some people age more gracefully than oth- ers. Jean Calment, who died ...

Behind the Buzz: How Ketamine Changes the Depressed Patient’s Brain The anesthetic-cum-party-drug restores the ability to make c ...

T HE FOOD AND DRUG Administration’s approv- al in March of a depres- sion treatment based on ketamine generated headlines, in pa ...

of the University of Bordeaux, France, who was not involved in the work, but wrote an accompanying com- mentary article in Scien ...

New research contrasts two very different profiles of human nature By Scott Barry Kaufman GARY WATERS GETTY IMAGES The Light Tri ...