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How Our Brains Make Memories
Smithsonian.com
5/1/2010
Sitting at a sidewalk café in Montreal on a sunny morning, Karim Nader recalls the day eight years earlier when two planes slammed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. He lights a cigarette and waves his hands in the air to sketch the scene.
Renoir's Controversial Second Act
Smithsonian.com
2/1/2010
In October 1881, not long after he finished his joyous Luncheon of the Boating Party, probably his best-known work and certainly one of the most admired paintings of the past 150 years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir left Paris for Italy to fulfill a long-standing ambition. He was 40 and already acclaimed as a pioneer of Impressionism, the movement that had challenged French academic painting with its daring attempts to capture light in outdoor scenes.
The Roots of Problem Personalities
SCIAM.com
4/10/2009
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) accounts for up to 10 percent of patients under psychiatric care and 20 percent of those who have to be hospitalized. People who have BPD suffer from unstable personal relationships, along with an inability to control their impulses and regulate their emotions.
Finding Connections: How Do the Parts of the Brain Interact?
SCIAM.com
3/28/2009
Neuroscience has long focused on the brain in terms of components: the visual cortex processes what we see, Broca’s area is the center for language, and so on. As our understanding of the brain has improved, however, it has become clear that a more accurate model depends on how these modules are wired together in circuits. A technique called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) gives us a tool to probe the nature of those connections.
Music, Melody, and the Strange Pull They Exert Over Our Minds
Discovermagazine.com
3/26/2009
If you can’t recall your mother’s birthday but can readily belt out all the lyrics to “Piano Man,” welcome to the club. Music and melody seem to have a unique place in memory, Amherst College cognitive scientist Matthew Schulkind suggests. His studies with older adults explore why pop songs grab hold of our memories—and whether music could help dementia patients reconnect with lost knowledge.