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Psychobiotics: How gut bacteria mess with your mind

Life

Psychobiotics: How gut bacteria mess with your mind

Gut bugs can change the way our brains work, offering new ways to relieve problems like stress, anxiety and depression, say John Cryan and Timothy Dinan

Opinion

Ecstatic epilepsy: How seizures can be bliss

Health

Ecstatic epilepsy: How seizures can be bliss

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Mindscapes: The first recording of hallucinated music

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Mindscapes: The first recording of hallucinated music

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Dementia: A silver lining but no room for complacency

Health

Dementia: A silver lining but no room for complacency

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Defusing dementia: Why is risk of Alzheimer's falling?

Health

Defusing dementia: Why is risk of Alzheimer's falling?

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Health

Soaring dementia rates prompt call for global action

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Coin-flip judgement of psychopathic prisoners' risk

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Coin-flip judgement of psychopathic prisoners' risk

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Are Alzheimer's and diabetes the same disease?

Health

Are Alzheimer's and diabetes the same disease?

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The night: Why they call it the graveyard shift

Health

The night: Why they call it the graveyard shift

Features

If diabetes causes Alzheimer's, we can beat it

Health

If diabetes causes Alzheimer's, we can beat it

Evidence is growing that Alzheimer's could actually be a late stage of type 2 diabetes – if it is, we all have another big reason to live healthier lives

Opinion

Health

Inside the minds of the JFK conspiracy theorists

Opinion

Life

Pregnant mother's stress affects baby's gut and brain

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Life

Learn another language to delay three dementias

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Brain stimulation boosts social skills in autism

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