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...early work on the brain was nonsense or worse. But today's powerful scanners now allow us to see inside the head as never before. Detailed maps of thousands of genes reveal the DNA blueprint that allows the brain to exist at all. More powerful psychoactive drugs let us understand the chemistry of the brain and fix it when it goes awry. In this issue, we catch up on the latest breakthroughs in this fast-moving field...
...world of mirror neurons, which play a key role in the development of language, empathy and human society; while Alice Park learns how brain science is contributing to marketing and advertising campaigns. In Manchester, Michael Brunton visits the Babylab, a research facility in England whose sole mission is to understand how babies' brains develop. TIME's talented graphics director, Jackson Dykman, managed to squeeze more than 7,000 years of fascination with the brain into a lively history lesson. Still haven't had enough? Jeremy Caplan invites you to play a few mind games to figure out why your brain...
That isn't to say that consciousness doesn't come with lots of mysteries. Science is full of mysteries. The topic of gravity is still mysterious four centuries after Isaac Newton. But there is no taboo about trying to understand...
...uproar that it has," says Kentucky state Rep. Kathy Stein, a Democrat who this month became the Bluegrass State's first woman to chair the powerful House Judiciary Committee. "Some parents might be cautious before giving a vaccine that is fairly new to a child and I can understand that. But many, many conservative groups - and I won't say Christian groups, but many of them are - say it is the parents who have a right to decide what happens to [their] children. They argue that if you are good folks who raise your daughter to be chaste and pure...
...word has Obama looking surprisingly good on that front (he recently attracted the help of ex-Kerry '04 national finance director Lou Susman, known as "the Hoover"), whereas those lesser candidates will be looking to make the most of what's called "free media" - that is, publicity stunts. I understand there's a slot on Oprah's schedule that's free...