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Your heartbeat may help you sync up with other people to cooperate

Your movements are more likely to occur between heartbeats than during them, a quirk that could help us synchronise with other people

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The illnesses caused by a disconnect between brain and mind

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Brain scans could reveal signs of childhood mistreatment

Mind

Child abuse may change brain structure and make depression worse

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From the archives: Pop a pill to change your personality

Regulars

The experiment plans to test brain stimulation on volunteers in a prison

Mind

Brain zap prison experiment suspended by Spanish government

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Don’t miss: A life in death, aquatic mysteries and the brain unveiled

Life

Don’t miss: A life in death, aquatic mysteries and the brain unveiled

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Humans

Find tonic water bitter? Part of your brain may be on the small side

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Mind-reading implant can decode what your ears are hearing

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8 ways to keep your brain young and stave off mental decline

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8 ways to keep your brain young and stave off mental decline

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Silencing brain cells in mice can make them no longer care about pain

When certain brain cells are silenced in mice, they still sense pain but no longer seem bothered by it. The finding could lead to new pain treatments

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Technology

Brain-reading headsets trialled on 10,000 schoolchildren in China

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Humans

Toys are us: How childhood objects may have shaped human history

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Mind

Cheers! Saying thanks is good for you and those around you

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Life

How busting some moves on the dance floor is good for your brain

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