Scientific American Mind - USA (2022-01 & 2022-02)

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022 | MIND.SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM Beautiful Beautiful Mess Mess Called Called LifeLife Individuals often overe ...

The pandemic has been a hard time for most people, even if not everyone is struggling in the same way. Families, for example—mot ...

January– February 2022 Volume 33 • Number 1 WHAT’S INSIDE Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images FEATURES 16.A Change to the Sound of the Vo ...

Svetlana Larshina/Getty Images Suicide Rates Rise in a Generation of Black Youth Multiple causes underlie a disturb- ing trend. ...

quarter of young adults had contem- plated suicide within the past 30 days. Suicides among Black youth may have increased for a ...

actually might be indicating that a child is at risk,” Lindsey says. They need to learn that at-risk youth may express irritabil ...

these models are not just useful for proposing the word “want” after you have typed “do you”—or for allowing computers to comple ...

Experimental Brain Implant Could Personalize Depression Therapy Symptoms subsided for one woman after a carefully targeted neura ...

another might increase energy levels. When the team activated a site deep in Sarah’s brain in a reward- related area called the ...

An Inventory of All the Brain Cells That Let You Run, Jump and Roll A project to map the motor cortex used the widest range of t ...

responsible for controlling complex movement. This atlas applies equally to mice, monkeys and humans. The motor cortex became th ...

NEWS types. Researchers also employed “epigenomic” techniques that look at how gene activity is influenced without altering the ...

t types that are common, including 24 excitatory, 13 inhibitory and eight nonneuronal cell types, such as astrocytes and oligode ...

Pandemic Year One Saw a Dramatic Glob- al Rise in Anxiety and Depression In hindsight, 2020 witnessed a disproportionate mental ...

we are typically used to seeing when it comes to the prevalence of these disorders,” says Damian Santomauro, the lead author, fr ...

A French physician explains what happened to some of his patients By Guillaume Jacquemont A Change to the Sound of the Voice Can ...

T he voice is the human musical instrument. It consists of a vibrating element, resonating chambers and energy that produces the ...

cords, if it is not cancerous and does not bother the patient, why touch it? I knew the ENT specialist who treated Louis Armstro ...

Discrimination Persists in Society— But Who Discriminates? Is discriminatory behavior widely dispersed or highly concentrated in ...

These competing hypotheses lead to different recom- mendations about how to effectively combat discrimina- tion in businesses, u ...