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Neuroscience has transformed our understanding of the brain and promises treatments for devastating disorders that affect millions.

Charts map rapid growth and slow decline of brains

06 April 2022

An international team of researchers has created a series of brain charts spanning our entire lifespan 鈥 from a 15 week old fetus to 100 year old adult 鈥 that show how our brains expand rapidly in early life and slowly shrink as we age.聽

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Depression

Marmoset study provides clues to link between mental health disorders and heart disease

08 May 2017

A team of researchers at Cambridge has identified how two key areas of the brain govern both our emotions and our heart activity, helping explain why...

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Living in a poor area increases the risk of anxiety in women, but not in men

05 May 2017

Women living in the most deprived areas are over 60% more likely to have anxiety as women living in richer areas. However, whether men lived in...

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Maintaining Brain Health

Opinion: Neuralink wants to wire your brain to the internet 鈥 what could possibly go wrong?

03 May 2017

A company in Silicon Valley claims to be developing a "whole brain interface鈥 for communicating wirelessly with the world. Christopher Markou...

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Scientists discover two repurposed drugs that arrest neurodegeneration in mice

20 Apr 2017

A team of scientists who a few years ago identified a major pathway that leads to brain cell death in mice, have now found two drugs that block the...

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Cambridge named as a centre for the UK Dementia Research Institute

20 Apr 2017

探花直播 探花直播 of Cambridge has been announced as one of the centres that will form the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI) alongside Cardiff...

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Elephant body awareness tast

Elephants鈥 鈥榖ody awareness鈥 adds to increasing evidence of their intelligence

12 Apr 2017

Asian elephants are able to recognise their bodies as obstacles to success in problem-solving, further strengthening evidence of their intelligence...

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Human rights of people with autism not being met, leading expert tells United Nations

31 Mar 2017

探花直播basic human rights of autistic people are not being met, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, a world expert on autism, told the United Nations in New...

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探花直播OCD Brain: how animal research helps us understand a devastating condition

28 Mar 2017

OCD can be a devastating condition: therapy and medication often doesn鈥檛 work, leaving many people unable to hold down a job or a relationship 鈥 or...

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Infections during pregnancy may interfere with key genes associated with autism and prenatal brain development

21 Mar 2017

If a mother picks up an infection during pregnancy, her immune system will kick into action to clear the infection 鈥 but this self-defence mechanism...

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 探花直播brain鈥檚 structural network.  探花直播hubs of this network continue to develop during adolescence.

Opinion: How mapping teenagers鈥 brains has helped us understand more about schizophrenia

15 Mar 2017

Teenage years can be difficult enough, but for people affected by schizophrenia, this is when symptoms first tend to arise. Dr Kirstie Whitaker (...

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Detect. Lock on. Intercept. 探花直播remarkable hunting ability of the robber fly

09 Mar 2017

A small fly the size of a grain of rice could be the Top Gun of the fly world, with a remarkable ability to detect and intercept its prey mid-air...

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Owen in the Abandoned House

Opinion: New ways to treat depression in teenagers

08 Mar 2017

Prime Minister Theresa May recently announced measures to improve mental health support at every stage of a person鈥檚 life, with an emphasis on early...

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