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Our sense of time may be warped because parts of our brain get tired

If you have ever felt time going more slowly than it really does, it could be because time-sensitive neurons in your brain are fatigued from repeated stimulation

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Nature versus nurture

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Stress

Alzheimer's beta-amyloid fibrils

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Alzheimer’s disease may start in the gut and spread to the brain

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Motion sickness

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A sugary diet changes gut bacteria and worsens brain function in rats

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Consciousness isn't just the brain: The body shapes your sense of self

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Consciousness isn't just the brain: The body shapes your sense of self

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Brain switch lets us control a kind of suspended animation in mice

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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

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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

Research in baboons suggests that misfolded proteins linked to Parkinson’s disease can travel from the brain to gut and vice versa – with both routes causing equal amounts of brain cell death

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

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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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Electrical devices implanted in the brain may help treat anorexia

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