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How to keep your brain healthy: The 7 things you should do every day

Health

How to keep your brain healthy: The 7 things you should do every day

Keeping your brain in good shape will not only stave off mental decline, but can also improve your relationships and boost your well-being – and it's never too late to make a difference

Features

brain organoids

Technology

Human brain organoids grown in cheap 3D-printed bioreactor

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sweat bee

Life

Bees have higher brain cell density than birds – but ants don’t

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Playing smartphone games could help researchers understand the brain

Mind

Playing smartphone games could help researchers understand the brain

Regulars

Digital brain

Technology

Video game graphics cards can simulate monkey brains on the cheap

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Think your sense of self is located in your brain? Think again

Humans

Think your sense of self is located in your brain? Think again

Features

You are not one person: Why your sense of self must be an illusion

Humans

You are not one person: Why your sense of self must be an illusion

Features

woman texting

Mind

People easily distracted by their phones perform worse on memory tests

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How a 6-year-old had half his brain removed and recovered in 3 months

Health

How a 6-year-old had half his brain removed and recovered in 3 months

Culture

Sleeping baby

Health

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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Humans

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

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Definition

Nature versus nurture

Definition

Stress

Health

Alzheimer’s disease may start in the gut and spread to the brain

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