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How your heart rate variability can offer an insight into your mind

Smartwatches commonly use heart rate variability to monitor stress. Columnist Helen Thomson explores what this metric actually tells us, and whether it could also predict and diagnose depression – and help improve your mental health more generally

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Why the right kind of stress is crucial for your health and happiness

Health

Why the right kind of stress is crucial for your health and happiness

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I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?

Mind

I don’t see images in my head. Can training give me a mind’s eye?

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Nelson Dellis holds his trophy after winning the annual USA Memory Championships in New York in 2011

Mind

Unprecedented insight into memory champion's brain reveals his tricks

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EAF952 the end of the road where a road dead ends into the Salton Sea with a sign and barrier

Mind

Want to live forever? There are major questions to confront, first 

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Mind

Major leap towards reanimation after death as mammal's brain preserved

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Boosting the blood-brain barrier could avert brain damage in athletes

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Mind

This neuroscientist says some psychopaths wish they were nicer

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Lymphatic-like structures within the brain of a healthy person

Health

Accidental discovery hints at mystery structures within our brain

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Health

Endurance brain cells may determine how long you can run for

The activity of certain neurons may influence our endurance for exercise, and these could be targeted to help us run faster for longer

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Psychedelic causes similar brain state to meditation

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Health

The secret signals our organs send to repair tissues and slow ageing

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Why people can have Alzheimer's-related brain damage but no symptoms

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Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain

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