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The key to understanding how brains can recover from trauma is that they are fantastically plastic – meaning our body’s supercomputer can reshape and remodel itself.
Many long COVID sufferers are reporting having ‘brain fog’, where they can’t concentrate as well as they used to.
Early reports suggested an apparent increase in OCD relapse rates and symptom severity during the pandemic. But a year on, we’re learning this may not be the case.
Odd findings in a brain scan of a 29-year-old woman have scientists asking new questions about how our sense of smell really works.
The brain itself can’t actually feel pain. It can’t sense damage to itself the way your finger can. We know this because people can have brain surgery while they are totally awake.
An adult brain weighs about 1.5kg. It’s mostly water with some fat, protein, sugar and a dash of salt. Sounds like pancakes, I know, but I once tried chicken brains and, well, pancakes are tastier.
La sclérose en plaques affecte de façon surtout les jeunes femmes. Elle survient quand le système immunitaire attaque le cerveau et brouille la communication avec le corps. Quelles sont ses causes ?
Las mujeres jóvenes son mucho más propensas a padecer esclerosis múltiple, una enfermedad en la que el cuerpo ataca al cerebro, dificultando la comunicación con el resto del organismo. Esto es lo que sabemos sobre las causas.
Young women are disproportionately affected by multiple sclerosis, a disease where the body attacks the brain, scrambling communication to the rest of the body. Here’s what we know about the causes.
Have you noticed your thinking ability drops during winter and spring? A new study of healthy adults and dementia patients found cognitive function declines in the colder months.
Wearing a tie that causes slight discomfort can reduce blood flow to the brain by 7.5%, but the reduction is unlikely to cause any physical symptoms, which generally begin at a reduction of 10%.
How can exercise, meditation and hypnosis change our brains and potentially prevent disease?
A statistical method widely used today by scientists and others is all thanks to a statistician at a Guinness brewery whose work was published anonymously more than a century ago.
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, but treatments are still far from successful in clinical trials. Here is what we know about the disease, and what is yet to be uncovered.
The Florey Institute’s Dr Jee Hyun Kim explains how the different aspects of memory work and why attention is the most important element of improving your memory in this long-form comic explainer.
Light arriving from the right visual field is processed in the brain’s left hemisphere. So damage to the left part of the primary visual cortex will result in blindness in the right visual field.
Many regions fundamental to mood are buried deep in the most primordial parts of the brain; that is, they are thought to have been among the first brain regions to develop in the human species.
When you read this text, certain regions in your brain begin working more than others. Advanced imaging allows scientists to map the brain networks responsible for understanding language.
News reports this week hailing a breakthrough in Alzheimer’s research, saying a vaccine for the disease is a few years away, have raised hopes for many. But let’s take a step back from the headlines.
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Professor and Head of Epigenetics and Neural Plasticity, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Head of Epilepsy Cognition Laboratory, Clinical Neuropsychologist, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Professor and Head of the Epilepsy Neuroinformatics Laboratory, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Associate professor, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Head, Statistics and Decision Analysis Academic Platform, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Professor, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Research Fellow, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Research associate, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Research officer, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Research Fellow, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Professor and Director, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Head of Genes Environment and Behaviour Laboratory, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Professor, Neurologist and Clinical Director, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
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Laboratory Head of Translational Cardiovascular and Renal Research Group, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
