Humans
Our sense of time may be warped because parts of our brain get tired
If you have ever felt time going more slowly than it really does, it could be because time-sensitive neurons in your brain are fatigued from repeated stimulation
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Nature versus nurture
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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Mind
Consciousness isn’t just the brain: The body shapes your sense of self
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Life
Brain switch lets us control a kind of suspended animation in mice
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Health
How brain scanners can help us revolutionise psychiatric drugs
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Health
Parkinson’s disease may spread from brain to gut and vice versa
Research in baboons suggests that misfolded proteins linked to Parkinson’s disease can travel from the brain to gut and vice versa – with both routes causing equal amounts of brain cell death
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Health
Coronavirus seems to reach the brain. What could this mean for us?
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Health
Shock therapy temporarily improves woman’s colour blindness
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Health
Common herpes virus causes signs of Alzheimer’s disease in brain cells
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Health
Electrical devices implanted in the brain may help treat anorexia
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