Oui! There is more than one way to navigate to the Eiffel Tower.
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Brain signals might work like people navigating without a map – and it’s actually more efficient than you think.
Omega-3 fats can be found in many food sources, including salmon, flax seeds and walnuts as well as over-the-counter supplements.
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A new study shows that most young adults know about the connection between omega-3 fats and brain and heart health. Despite this, only two out of five reported buying or eating omega-3 foods.
You heard it say what?
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Where you come down on the latest internet hullabaloo depends on how your brain fills in gaps in the sounds you hear.
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As well as increasing physical fitness and mental health, martial arts can boost brain cognition too.
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You’re more likely to know a word but not be able to produce it as you get older. Keeping fit could minimise these lapses.
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When it comes to neuroscience, there’s no such thing as an ‘average’ teenager.
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The after effects of brain injury can turn lives upside down.
The drive to overeat may be rooted in survival brain circuits.
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New weight loss approaches seek to switch off the brain patterns that drive overeating and weight regain. Here’s how that works, and how it could help you.
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A lot of Alzheimer’s treatments focus on removing plaques in the brain. But could this be the wrong target?
Probes that can transmit electricity inside the skull raise questions about personal autonomy and responsibility.
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Where does responsibility lie if a person acts under the influence of their brain implant? As neurotechnologies advance, a neuroethicist and a legal expert write that now’s the time to hash it out.
Brain activity.
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Researchers have identified which part of the brain helps us understand and respond to social interactions.
There are currently no effective treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, which causes may elders to live their last years without recognizing their loved ones, and unable to care for themselves.
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Study of the “memory centres” of the brain in adults offers hope for detecting Alzheimer’s disease earlier – before the onset of memory loss.
Could it be that a baby has all the brain cells she ever will?
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Neuroscience labs around the world may need to reevaluate some of their assumptions about whether what works in animals will really produce meaningful treatments for people.
A lone new neuron (green) in a 13-year-old’s hippocampus.
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The scientists behind a controversial new study were surprised by their own results. But they carefully did all they could to ‘prove a negative,’ and their neurogenesis study is shaking up the field.
Baroness Tessa Jowell speaking in the House of Lords.
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There are several things we can do to speed up the development of new drugs, without putting patients at risk.
The answer has long eluded scientists.
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Creative people seem to possess a unique connection between three brain networks that typically work separately.
Harmful tau protein spreads through networks.
Harmful proteins spread between connected neurons much like flu spreads through a social network. The finding may provide future opportunities for halting Alzheimer’s.
What’s going on in there when you decide?
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A new initiative called the International Brain Laboratory is tackling this fundamental mystery of neuroscience in an unusual way.
Brain damage linked to concussions in football can resemble that found in elderly and comatose patients but there may be ways to prevent it so the sport continues. Toronto Argonauts’ Jeffrey Finley, left, rushes to take down Calgary Stampeders’ quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell in this August file photo.
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Concussions in football and other contact sports correlate with severe, long-term brain damage — but science shows it doesn’t have to be that way.
All brain tumours are associated with significant sickness and death, even if they are benign.
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Why hasn’t there been an improvement in survival in the last 30 years for patients with brain cancers?