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Child abuse shrinks key brain memory centre

Brain scans reveal that young adults who were abused as children have a smaller hippocampus, a seat of memory

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Cancer drug reverses Alzheimer's in mice

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Disrupted body clock may prime you for schizophrenia

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Disrupted body clock may prime you for schizophrenia

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Hijack your own dreams to improve your skills

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Hijack your own dreams to improve your skills

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Health

Abused children's brains work like soldiers' do

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Life

Older brains lack quick-fire connections

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Alzheimer's damage reversed by deep brain stimulation

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Alzheimer's damage reversed by deep brain stimulation

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Mental problems gave early humans an edge

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Mental problems gave early humans an edge

Features

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To avoid PTSD, no debrief for Japan's quake survivors

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Technology

Brain-training games stop depression before it starts

Depression could be staved off before it even appears using a computer game so simplistic that even the psychologist testing it once bet it wouldn't work

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Life

Drug hallucinations look real in the brain

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Life

People with autism unaffected by social reputation

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Health

Infant anaesthesia link with learning difficulties

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Life

Monkeys meditate for marshmallows

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