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Mind Over Money
Emerging Discipline Looks at the Neurobiology of Economic Decision Making Having given themselves over to the messy emotional forces and stubborn cognitive tricks that complicate our efforts to be rational, many decision scientists are now
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A Different Battle
Better equipment has increased soldiers’ survival rates in explosions in Iraq, but they come home with brain injuries that have doctors scrambling for answers. At Walter Reed Army Medical Center, neuropsychologist Louis M. French is
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In Africa: Evaluating the Neuropsychological Effects of Cerebral Malaria in Ugandan Children
Michael J. Boivin (front, second from left) was a Fulbright scholar to the department of pediatrics at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. Seen here at a farewell dinner with his research team and family, Boivin
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Presidential Symposium: Biology and Behavior
J. Michael Bailey presents research on the biological psychology of seuality during the Presidential Symposium. The New Biological Bases of Behavior Henry L. Roediger, III, chair Washington University in St. Louis Presenters J. Michael Bailey
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What’s Neurobiology Got to Do With It?
Since Adam and Eve, monogamous relationships have been the model for religion and law. Some people seem more inclined to pair and settle down than others. Research into the mating habits of prairie voles has
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Psychology in a Post-Genomics
The draft DNA sequence of the human genome was announced in June 2000, two years ahead of schedule. Some party-poopers grumble that the four nucleotide letters that constitute the DNA alphabet are not GATC, but
