Silvia H. Cardoso, Ph.D.
Silvia H. Cardoso, Ph.D., a behavioral biologist, is an associate researcher at the Center for Biomedical Informatics, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. She is a founding member and Vice-President of Edumed Institute and founder of Brain & Mind Electronic Magazine (www.epub.org.br/cm/).
Hardwired for Happiness
Happiness, which is good for both mind and body, is at least in part biological, rooted in the evolution of the brain and nervous system.
The Animal That Weeps
All animals with mobile eyes shed tears, but only humans do so to express sadness, pain, or grief, in a process that appears to involve both our higher and lower brain centers.
Dying to Kill: The Mind of the Terrorist
What does it take to transform the human brain into a biological weapon of mass murder?