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A Scientist Dissents on Sex and Cognition

Do the hormones that determine our sex in the womb, then transform our bodies in puberty, leave our brains utterly untouched? Not so, says psychologist Doreen Kimura.

By: Doreen Kimura, Ph.D.

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In Search of the Musical Mind

Psychologist and former professional musican Daniel Levitin examines the brain’s complex systems for processing music and asks whether music may be a unique human evolutionary adaptation.

By: Daniel J. Levitin, Ph.D.

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Wounds That Time Won’t Heal: The Neurobiology of Child Abuse

Neuropsychologist Martin Teicher reveals the alarming connections scientists are discovering between child abuse—even when it is psychological, not physical—and permanent debilitating changes in the brain that may lead to psychiatric problems.

By: Martin H. Teicher, M.D., Ph.D.

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The Frustrating No-Man’s-Land of Borderline Personality Disorder

The turbulent emotions and precipitous actions of people with borderline personality disorder may strike families and mental health professionals alike as willful, irritating, and manipulative, but thousands of men and women suffer, and many commit suicide, in this psychiatric no-man’s-land.

By: Harold W. Koenigsberg, M.D., Larry J. Siever, M.D.

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ADHD: Serious Psychiatric Problem or All-American Cop-out?

A Debate Between Richard J. DeGrandpre, Ph.D., and Stephen P. Hinshaw, Ph.D.

Psychologists DeGrandpre and Hinshaw debate ADHD and the pervasive treatment (or quick fix?), Ritalin.

By: Richard DeGrandpre, Ph.D., Stephen P. Hinshaw, Ph.D.

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Madness in Good Company: Great Literary Portrayals of Brain Disorders

A baker’s dozen of the most compelling novels and short stories of the past 200 years take us deep inside disordered minds. Whether writing from personal experience, as did Sylvia Plath and F. Scott Fitzgerald, or solely from their creative imaginations, as did Charles Dickens or Anne Tyler, powerful fiction writers show us the horror, and sometimes even the humor, of diseases from addiction to narcolepsy.

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Pretending that Intelligence Doesn’t Matter

Opinion Column from 2000

What happens when scientific knowledge of the nature and measurement of intelligence seems to clash with our democratic values?

By: Linda S. Gottfredson, Ph.D.

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Alzheimer’s: Daring to Play the Apoptosis Card

A neuroanatomist argues that brain cell self-destruction may be the final common pathway of many devastating brain diseases.

By: James B. Hutchins, Ph.D.

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Protecting the Vulnerable in Brain Research

For the first time in decades, active proposals are on the table for protecting vulnerable patients who participate in brain research.

By: Robert Cook-Deegan, M.D.

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Rescuing Aging Memory: Stem Cells and Other Rising Stars

As neuroscientists discover the great difference between normally aging memory and the devastation of Alzheimer’s disease, explains brain researcher Morrison, they are finding reasons for optimism that a slipping memory may not be our fate.

By: John H. Morrison, Ph.D.

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