Health
Top tips to get a better night’s sleep and improve your health
Sleep scientist Matthew Walker reveals how many hours of slumbering you need, how to make up for a lack of it and gives tips on how to get a better night’s rest
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Sleeping too little is no badge of honour – it harms our brains
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Wake-up call: How a lack of sleep can cause Alzheimer’s
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AI spots Alzheimer’s brain changes years before symptoms emerge
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Humans
Alzheimer’s and smoking genes suggest we’re still evolving
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We need a more grown-up conversation about the menopause
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How menopause and Alzheimer’s change the brain in similar ways
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Childhood exercise may protect against memory loss in old age
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From statistics to surgery to psychology: Our favourite reads
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Environment
Signs of Alzheimer’s found in chimpanzees for the first time
Our closest evolutionary relatives develop Alzheimer’s plaques and tangles too but don’t necessarily get dementia - a finding that may need to new treatments
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Lasers reactivate ‘lost’ memories in mice with Alzheimer’s
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Blood test detects Alzheimer’s plaques building up in brain
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Life
Rats can tell when they’ve forgotten something, just like us
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Human tests suggest young blood cuts cancer and Alzheimer’s risk
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