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What I’ll be doing to help detox my brain in the new year
We have only just started to understand how our brains clean themselves, but columnist Helen Thomson finds promising evidence for how to boost this process
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Your brain undergoes four dramatic periods of change from age 0 to 90
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Ultrasound may boost survival after a stroke by clearing brain debris
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Falling asleep isn’t a gradual process – it happens all of a sudden
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Can’t focus after a bad night’s sleep? Your dirty brain is to blame
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Neurologist explains how brain disorders shape our sense of self
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Paralysed man can feel objects through another person’s hand
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Mother’s voice seems to boost language development in premature babies
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What’s my Alzheimer’s risk, and can I really do anything to change it?
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Our brain ‘swivels’ to focus on sounds from different directions
Many mammals physically pivot their ears to hone in on a particular sound, and now it seems that a similar action takes place in our brain
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Babies’ brains ‘tick’ more slowly than ours, which may help them learn
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The truth about narcissists: How to handle them, and can they change?
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Is reading always better for your brain than listening to audiobooks?
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Where you store fat may influence the effect it has on your brain
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