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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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Our sense of time may be warped because parts of our brain get tired

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Nature versus nurture

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Stress

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Alzheimer’s 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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Consciousness isn't just the brain: The body shapes your sense of self

Mind

Consciousness isn't just the brain: The body shapes your sense of self

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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

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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’s 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’s colour blindness

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Common herpes virus causes signs of Alzheimer's disease in brain cells

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