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A new angle on brain health could bring much-needed new treatments

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A new angle on brain health could bring much-needed new treatments

Psychiatric medicine hasn't changed much since the 1960s. Could blocking the effects of chronic inflammation on the brain be the step change we need?

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Chronic inflammation messes with your mind. Here's how to calm it

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Chronic inflammation messes with your mind. Here's how to calm it

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Someone with paralysis using the brain-computer interface. The text above is the cued sentence and the text below is what is being decoded in real-time as she imagines speaking the sentence

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Mind-reading AI can turn even imagined speech into spoken words

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What are the best ways to improve your cognitive reserve?

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A ribosome (centre) producing a protein (red) from mRNA. The dark purple strands represent transfer RNA, which are also involved in protein production

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Ageing in the brain may be caused by a breakdown in protein production

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The pandemic may have aged our brains even before we caught covid-19

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A youthful brain and immune system may be key to a long life

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Developing brain cells from the hippocampus growing in culture

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Do we grow new brain cells as adults? The answer seems to be yes

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Somerville, MA - October 27: Pria Anand is a neurologist and the author of The Mind Electric, out from Simon & Schuster (U.S.) and Little, Brown (U.K.) in June 2025 on October 27, 2024 in Somerville, MA. ( David Degner / www.DavidDegner.com )

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Spellbinding debut book explores the marvels of our brains

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The word 'language' being highlighted in a dictionary.

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Ancient humans only evolved language once, but why?

There’s an argument rumbling about why our ancestors evolved language. And surprisingly, one of the possible explanations has nothing to do with communication

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Cyborg tadpoles are helping us learn how brain development starts

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Massaging the neck and face may help flush waste out of the brain

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We’re about to unlock the secrets of ancient human brains

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How your whole imagination is conjured up from three brain processes

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