Experimenting With the Mind
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The CIA was eager to examine the use of dangerous pharmaceutical drugs to modify the behavior of targeted individuals, and so it asked commercial drug manufacturers to pass along samples of medicines rejected for commercial sale "because of unfavorable side effects," according to an undated...
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Scientists have mapped a key network of switches in the brain which could aid research into neurological conditions.
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A new awareness of promoting Âan image of joy and wellness.Â
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In search of the ultimate lie detector, researchers turn to thermal facial scans, brain wiring and eyeball tracking. But deception still, well, deceives. By Randy Dotinga.
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New research has opened a promising window on the phenomenon of dÃ©jÃ  vu, providing both possible explanations for the sensation and novel ways to create and measure it.
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Differences in the brain may increase the chances a person will take drugs, scientists say.
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Electric shock experiments on humans have shown that brain regions linked to fear responses are also highly activated when fears are unlearned, a finding that provides insight into developing drugs for anxiety and other fear disorders.
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Researchers train a monkey to feed itself by guiding a mechanical arm with its mind. It could be a big step forward for prosthetics. By David Cohn.
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When the human brain mates with the computerâs, we get the automation of judgment.
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Can a rational awareness of flavor chemistry and amine circuitry influence heighten our actual sensory experience of food?
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Experts pinpoint a brain part that may hold the key to recognising places we have been.
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Probing the depths of spending psychology.
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Scientists have discovered that the sweetness of revenge may have a neurological basis. A Swiss brain imaging study shows that punishing people when they behave unfairly
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Scientists say they have developed a non-invasive, brain-computer interface that enables a person to move a cursor across a computer screen just by thinking about it.
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Japanese researchers have implanted a  small camera inside a mouse's brain to see how memory is  formed, in an experiment they hope to some day apply to humans  to treat illnesses such as Parkinson's disease.
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Four people have been able to control a computer using their thoughts and an electrode-studded &quot;thinking cap&quot;, US researchers have reported.