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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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We can train our brain to access our unconscious for a cognitive boost

Health

We can train our brain to access our unconscious for a cognitive boost

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How brain scanners can help us revolutionise psychiatric drugs

Health

How brain scanners can help us revolutionise psychiatric drugs

Features

Electric current helps dampen tics in people with Tourette's syndrome

Health

Electric current helps dampen tics in people with Tourette's syndrome

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Neurons in cages

Health

Brain cells reach out to each other through miniature cages

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Rotten fish

Health

Rotten fish smell could detect awareness in people with brain injuries

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Rats

Technology

Robots with 3D-printed muscles are powered by the spines of rats

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Stress early in life can make a child’s brain more like an adult's

Mind

Stress early in life can make a child’s brain more like an adult's

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Pearse Keane at 51¶¯Âþ Live 2019

Video

How DeepMind's artificial intelligence is reinventing the eye exam

Video

Neuron cells

Health

Genetically modified neurons could help us connect to implants

Neurons engineered to produce electrically conducting polymers on their surface could one day be used to treat epilepsy or to better control prosthetics

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Humans

Don't miss: War in Westworld, the power of sight and unearthly audio

Culture

Humans

Don't miss: A singing bridge, a lost people and brilliant minds

Culture

Humans

Who do you think you are? Why your sense of self is an illusion

Features

Video

Can we really choose our own fate, or is free will an illusion?

Video

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