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How brain scanners can help us revolutionise psychiatric drugs

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How brain scanners can help us revolutionise psychiatric drugs

Most psychiatric drugs were developed before brain scans existed. Now neuroscientist Mitul Mehta is using scans of people under the influence of drugs or hypnosis to help develop better treatments

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Parkinson’s disease may spread from brain to gut and vice versa

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Parkinson’s disease may spread from brain to gut and vice versa

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Coronavirus seems to reach the brain. What could this mean for us?

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Coronavirus seems to reach the brain. What could this mean for us?

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Ishihara color perception test chart

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Shock therapy temporarily improves woman’s colour blindness

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Common herpes virus causes signs of Alzheimer's disease in brain cells

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Common herpes virus causes signs of Alzheimer's disease in brain cells

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Nerve cells

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Electrical devices implanted in the brain may help treat anorexia

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Brain scans children congenital Zika virus syndrome

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Toddlers born with Zika virus seem to be affected in multiple ways

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My patient's marriage was saved by a brain injury

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My patient's marriage was saved by a brain injury

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The way we think about the brain may be completely wrong

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The way we think about the brain may be completely wrong

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Diet and exercise will keep your brain young – depending on your genes

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Diet and exercise will keep your brain young – depending on your genes

Following a healthy diet or exercising could impact how your brain ages, but the effects on cognitive skills later in life depend on specific gene variants that not everyone has

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Brain implant detects and turns down symptoms of Parkinson’s disease

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We process a song's lyric and melody on different sides of the brain

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Don't miss: I Am Not Okay With This, aged brains, and invisible worlds

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Don't stress: The scientific secrets of people who keep cool heads

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