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Do early gut problems set the brain up for depression?

Understanding how gut infections could lead to depression and what genes are involved could lead to better personalised medicine

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Debate over medicalisation of the urge to rape

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Cancer drug resurfaces and threatens false optimism

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Inaccurate IQs could be a matter of life and death

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Neurons with double DNA implicated in Alzheimer's

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Neurons with double DNA implicated in Alzheimer's

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Fear dulls our awareness of the nuances of sound

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Suicides peak in the happiest US states

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How Japan will survive psychological fallout of crisis

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How Japan will survive psychological fallout of crisis

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How antidepressants boost growth of new brain cells

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Mind controls: Electrodes sitting on the brain's surface

Epidural cortical stimulation is a halfway house: you do get a hole in your head, but no wires in the brain, and it has helped severely depressed people

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Mind controls: Wires in the brain

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Mind controls: Running electricity through the skull

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Psychedelic drug cuts brain blood flow and connections

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Brain scans suggest psychopaths could be treated

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