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mental health

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Humans

Memories can be disconnected – and it could help those with PTSD

An innocuous smell or sound can be enough to trigger painful memories of trauma. Now researchers have found a way to disconnect linked memories in mice.

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Health

How LSD affects the brain and creates its trippy effect

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Health

Three ways to find your purpose in life and reap the benefits

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Health

A meaning to life: How a sense of purpose can keep you healthy

Features

Hannibal Lector

Health

Real-life psychopaths actually have below-average intelligence

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Health

Fat shaming is everywhere but gets society precisely nowhere

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Space

Space travel's mental health toll could endanger long missions

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Health

‘Psychedelic sanctuary’ will help drug users get over bad trips

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Let’s hope UK’s soft drink tax cuts obesity and diabetes rates

Health

Let’s hope UK’s soft drink tax cuts obesity and diabetes rates

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Health

Can we really predict who will cost society the most money?

A study suggests that family income and mental and physical abilities at the age of 3 can predict who will go on to commit crime and have bad health

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Life

Brain cell transplant helps fearful mice overcome anxiety

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Health

Light therapy could break down Alzheimer's brain deposits

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Life

Breakthrough Prize hands out $25 million for 'Oscars' of science

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Space

Buzz Aldrin evacuated from South Pole after falling ill

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