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A Debate on “Multiple Intelligences”

A probing, three-round debate on the concept of multiple intelligences.

By: Howard Gardner, Ph.D., James Traub

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From Angels to Neurons

Artists and Scientists Envision Dreaming

Dream researcher Allan Hobson looks at the surprising parallels between explorations of dreams by scientists and artists over two millennia.

By: J. Allan Hobson, M.D.

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Scientists in Bunkers

How Appeasement of “Animal Rights” Activism Has Failed

These neuroscientists warn that propaganda, political pressure, and outright violence by opponents of animal research now threaten to curtail progress in fields from behavior to psychopharmacology, from addiction to stroke.

By: Frederick K. Goodwin, M.D., Adrian R. Morrison, D.V.M., Ph.D.

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Marijuana: The Myths Are Hazardous to Your Health

As early as the 1930s, lawmakers began heeding fear about social harm instead of their own research reports on marijuana. An Oxford University psychopharmacologist, advisor to the British House of Lords on drug legislation, considers what science can tell us about medical and recreational use of the weed. Both legalizers and regulators may bristle at his controversial recommendations, but many scientists will cheer.

By: Leslie L. Iversen, Ph.D.

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Teaching Albert Honesty: Help from Brain Research

Kenneth Livingston suggests that brain research can now offer some powerful—if still tentative —insights to guide parents and other teachers of morality.

By: Kenneth R. Livingston, Ph.D.

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The Great Brain Books

Based on a Survey of Members of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives

Here is a selection of the great brain books for lay readers. The recommendations of three dozen leading neuroscientists cover everything from emotions and cognition to diseases and disorders.

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The Interpreter Within: The Glue of Conscious Experience

A generation of brilliant scientists is racing to understand consciousness. The answer, says one of America’s leading cognitive neuroscientists, may leave us less than satisfied—unless we realize that our sense of a unified self is just another of our brain’s survival systems.

By: Michael S. Gazzaniga, Ph.D.

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Looking to the Brain to Save the Heart

Cardiologists at Massachusetts General Hospital look at how depression and anxiety may interact with heart disease and ask how physicians and their patients should respond.

By: James L. Januzzi, M.D., Roman W. DeSanctis, M.D.

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Murderous Minds: Can We See the Mark of Cain?

If you could look into the brain of a murderer, would you be able to see an abnormality?

By: Adrian Raine, D.Phil.

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At Last, Help for Afflicted Brains in Afflicted Bodies

Psychiatrists fleeing the worst constraints of managed care are specializing in cases that combine mental disorders and physical illness. 

By: Robert G. Robinson, M.D.

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