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person wearing brain-zapping headset

Mind

Europe’s first home brain-zap device for depression launched in UK

A headset that allows you to treat the symptoms of depression by zapping your brain has gone on sale in the UK

News

meditation

Mind

How does consciousness work? A radical theory has mind-blowing answers

Culture

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Mind

Newly discovered brain cells help us recall where we last saw objects

News

Depression may reduce the amount of white matter in the brain

Health

Depression may reduce the amount of white matter in the brain

News

Your body's hidden language: How smell reveals more than you ever knew

Humans

Your body's hidden language: How smell reveals more than you ever knew

Features

Description:Human brain. Coloured composite image with three-dimensional (3D) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan of the left hemisphere of a healthy brain. The primary motor cortex is coloured orange, and is involved in controlling movement. The primary somatosensory cortex is coloured turquoise, and receives all sensory input from the body for processing.

Technology

Supercomputer simulates 77,000 neurons in the brain in real-time

News

A shrunken world

Mind

Man sees the world in miniature after a stroke damages his brain

News

Dean Burnett on why disruptive teens might have saved the human race

Humans

Dean Burnett on why disruptive teens might have saved the human race

Regulars

game handset

Mind

Am I addicted? The truth behind being hooked on gaming, sex or porn

Features

woman with head injury

Mind

A single severe head injury can trigger long-term brain damage

Brain scans show that one major head injury can cause similar long-term brain damage to that seen in NFL players who have had many smaller head knocks

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Health

Healthy gut, happy mind: What to eat to boost how you feel

Features

Health

How what you eat directly influences your mental health

Features

Mind

Mini-brains grown in a lab show neural activity like preterm babies

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Health

DNA mutation lets some people live healthily on only 4 hours' sleep

News

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