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This Yale researcher wants to take her field in a completely new direction.By Explain the Brain

Can a borderline psychopath rehabilitate himself?By Explain the Brain

How to spot the psychopaths in our political history, and our current election.By Explain the Brain

How to stop a psychopath.Hint: You've got to start early.By Explain the Brain

A neuroscientist makes an unsettling discovery.By Explain the Brain

This neuroscientist thinks Western science is missing the mark by studying the markers of consciousness, instead of the thing itself.By Explain the Brain

Justin Hulbert's found that by suppressing bad memories we may compromise our ability to form new memories.By Explain the Brain

Heather Berlin's a neuroscientist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and she has a new theory for the causes behind OCD.By Explain the Brain

Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde reveal what magicians can teach neuroscientists.By Explain the Brain

Neuroscientist David Eagleman is creating a new device to help blind people "see." And it looks a lot like an an athletic vest.By Explain the Brain

What's really going on in the minds of synesthetes?By Explain the Brain

Conventional thinking about brains, and blame, can be useless in a court of law.By Explain the Brain

That whole idea of an internal clock? It's a lie.By Explain the Brain

The author of "Mastermind" explains how to better use your brain.By Explain the Brain

Modern psychology is just now coming to grips with our subconscious thoughts -- and finding there's not a lot we can do to control them.By Explain the Brain

Hunter College cognitive psychologist Diana Reiss describes her search for the Rosetta Stone of dolphin language.By Explain the Brain

The way we’ve studied anxiety has been more helpful to rats in mazes than humans in stressful situations.By Explain the Brain

Neuroscientist David Eagleman is creating a new device to help blind people "see." And it looks a lot like an an athletic vest.By Explain the Brain

This neuroeconomist thinks he's found a reason why we do nice things for other people.By Explain the Brain

What's really important when it comes to raising good readers? This Harvard psychologist has found parents matter even more than you might think.By Explain the Brain

What's really going on in the minds of synesthetes?By Explain the Brain

When you see someone with a frightened face, it's hard to look away. Charles Nelson looks at when, and why, we get this attraction to fear.By Explain the Brain

This Harvard psychologist's work has shown that most of us are racist, sexist, age-ist, class-ist, able-ist, and so on. Basically we're pre-destined to stereotype others. But, she says, that doesn't mean we can't retrain our brains to move past prejudices.A longer version of this interview appeared in Episode 7 of The Organist podcast: https://soun…

Conventional thinking about brains and blame can be useless in a court of law.By Explain the Brain

When it comes to learning language, kids aren't just copying adults.By Explain the Brain

That whole idea of an internal clock? It's a lie.By Explain the Brain

This New York University psychologist sends infants over cliffs in order to watch them learn locomotion. You will never look at a crawling baby the same way again after hearing this story.By Explain the Brain

This Vassar College psychologist blames adolescent blunders on a surprising cause: over-thinking. She says teenagers have to concentrate to do simple tasks that adults can get through on auto-pilot.By Explain the Brain