Messengers of the Brain
Neurotransmitters-Messengers of the Brain
By John J. Fried
AROUND THE WORLD, scientists are in hot pursuit of the secrets of chemicals called neurotransmitters. These substances, found...
The Human Brain
Probing the Awesome Power of the Human Brain
A PRETTY Berkeley coed with electrodes pasted to her head reclines in an easy chair and closes...
Human Intelligence
The Varieties of Human Intelligence
By John H. Douglas
THEN TEEN-AGER had crushing news for his parents. Slow from infancy, troublesome in school, he was now...
Unconquerable Mind
Man’s Unconquerable Mind
By Gilbert Highet
LAND and air and water are filled with living things but, apart from mankind, they scarcely ever change, or, if...
Mental Health
Common Sense Route to Mental Health
By Harry Levinson
SIGMUND FREUD said that in order to have mental health a person had to be able to...
Self-Healing Powers
The Remarkable self-Healing Powers of the Mind
By Morton M. Hunt
DURING World War ll, I was an Eighth Air Force pilot, flying lonely reconnaissance missions...
Heal Itself
Biofeedback: Mind Teaches Body to Heal Itself
By John J. Fried
FOR almost seven years, Mrs. Andrews had been unable to move her head. Her condition-known...
Route to the Eternal
Riley’s Route to the Eternal Now
By Wayne Amos
AFTER MANY years in New York and Europe, I was back in the plains states visiting my...
Stretches Your Mind
How Poetry Stretches Your Mind
By Dame Edith Sitwell
FROM TIME to time, mainly in England, an outcry arises on the subject of the use of...
Mixing Mental Cocktails
Mixing Mental Cocktails
By Gayelord Hauser
IT IS MIDNIGHT. I am lying in bed in the Grand Hotel in Rome. I have been driving all day...