Health
Virtual reality helps eight paralysed people feel their legs
Hooking the brain up to virtual avatars and robotic exoskeletons has allowed people who have been paralysed for many years to regain some control of their body
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Health
First real-time look at genes switching off in live human brains
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Parents giving unproven IQ-boosting drugs to kids with Down’s
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Best look yet at how our brain’s sewage system flushes out waste
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Environment
Baby monkeys smile in their sleep – more so than human babies
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Being fat in middle age may shrink your brain’s white matter
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Life
Found: brain switches that wake flies up and send them to sleep
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Mind
Crystal mimics brain cell to sift through giant piles of data
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Mysterious dark brain cells linked to Alzheimer’s and stress
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Alzheimer’s drug that failed trial may still slow disease
A drug that targets tau tangles in the brain has failed when tested as a treatment to be taken with other medication. But it may work well when taken alone
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Humans
Revealed: the teenage brain upgrades that occur before adulthood
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Humans
Neanderthal skulls and brains may have developed just like ours
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Thousands of fMRI brain studies in doubt due to software flaws
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Humans
Mystery of what sleep does to our brains may finally be solved
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