Health
The purpose of sleep appears to change when we are toddlers
Sleep in babies seems to mainly help develop new brain connections, but at the age of around two-and-a-half there is an abrupt shift to brain repair
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Humans
Our sense of time may be warped because parts of our brain get tired
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Nature versus nurture
Stress
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Alzheimer鈥檚 disease may start in the gut and spread to the brain
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Motion sickness
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A sugary diet changes gut bacteria and worsens brain function in rats
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Mind
Consciousness isn’t just the brain: The body shapes your sense of self
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Life
Brain switch lets us control a kind of suspended animation in mice
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How brain scanners can help us revolutionise psychiatric drugs
Most psychiatric drugs were developed before brain scans existed. Now neuroscientist Mitul Mehta is using scans of people under the influence of drugs or hypnosis to help develop better treatments
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Parkinson鈥檚 disease may spread from brain to gut and vice versa
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Coronavirus seems to reach the brain. What could this mean for us?
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Shock therapy temporarily improves woman鈥檚 colour blindness
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Common herpes virus causes signs of Alzheimer’s disease in brain cells
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