Neuroscience

Shake Up the Snow Globe in Your Mind

Michael Pollan explores the neuroscience of psychedelics in this excerpt from his new book.

By Michael Pollan

Masturbation as Medicine

Too hot for UCLA: Nicole Prause wants you to have more orgasms … so she can study them.

By Mallory Pickett

For a Brain-Computer Interface to Work, Are Holograms the Only Hope?

Hardware visionary Mary Lou Jepsen’s next act is to read your mind—no implants required.

By Kristen V. Brown

Take Two Placebos and Call Me in the Morning

Sham treatments that work even when you know they’re fakes.

By Anna Nowogrodzki