Scientific American Mind - USA (2022-05 & 2022-06)

Thomas Fuchs Can Lab-Grown Brains Become Conscious? A handful of experiments are raising questions about whether clumps of cells ...

In Alysson Muotri’s laboratory, hundreds of miniature human brains, the size of sesame seeds, float in petri dishes, sparking wi ...

SENTIENT STATES Creating a conscious system might be a whole lot easier than defining it. Researchers and clinicians define con- ...

about a brain that has been filled with all this, it is hard to imagine that brain would be empty,” says Jeantine Lunshof, a phi ...

flexible, everyone claims their own meaning,” Hyun says. “If it’s not clear we’re talking about the same thing, it’s a big probl ...

Hyun says that the NIH neuroethics panel has not yet seen any proposals to create complex, conscious organ- oids that would nece ...

A teacher in a biosecurity suit gives a lesson to a girl in her home in Cali, Colombia. The Pandemic Generation Luis Robayo/AFP ...

L ike many pediatricians, Dani Dumitriu braced her- self for the impact of SARS- CoV-2, the COVID-causing coronavirus, when it f ...

Baby Imaging Lab. There Sean Deoni, a medical biophysicist, and his colleagues use magnetic res- onance imaging (MRI) and other ...

than girls and that gross-motor skills were affected the most. At first, Deoni assumed that selection bias was at play: perhaps ...

gests that some children have lost as much as a full year of learning. And in the U.S., after the first lockdown, a report by th ...

Thomason is running her own study to assess the effects of maternal stressors on children’s brains and behavior. She notes that, ...

COVID Threatens to Bring a Wave of Hikikomori to America We should work to protect others from falling into long-term social wit ...

that have yet to be recognized in the U.S., expand- ing the definition of hikikomori to include any per- son who is homebound mo ...

Why Kids Are Afraid to Ask for Help Children as young as seven years old may hesitate to ask questions in school because they wo ...

givers should evaluate their practices and consid- er how they might make children more comfort- able with seeking aid. To learn ...

Most of Us Combine Personality Traits from Different Genders New research underscores that almost everyone’s personality blends ...

Scientists are also raising questions around gender, sex and personality. For one, researchers debate how big the personality di ...

en. We also found that, on average, men’s self-re- ported personality was a bit more thick-skinned, risk-taking and self-valuing ...

The Devastating Loss of Grandparents among One Million COVID Dead Grandparents are a majority of the pandemic’s death toll T hin ...