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The therapy pill: Forget your phobia in fast forward

Health

The therapy pill: Forget your phobia in fast forward

Talking cures for phobias or addictions take ages to detrain your brain. What if a memory-boosting drug let you do it in a day? Jessica Hamzelou pops the pill

Features

First test to predict Alzheimer's years in advance

Life

First test to predict Alzheimer's years in advance

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Feeling sad? Computer knows by looking at how you move

Technology

Feeling sad? Computer knows by looking at how you move

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Health

Ear bath helps explain rare urge to cut off own limb

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Cannabis can kill without the influence of other drugs

Health

Cannabis can kill without the influence of other drugs

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Health trauma of floods may last after waters subside

Earth

Health trauma of floods may last after waters subside

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Spit test could allow depression screening at school

Health

Spit test could allow depression screening at school

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Autoimmune attack behind some cases of schizophrenia

Health

Autoimmune attack behind some cases of schizophrenia

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Exercise could help prevent age-related blindness

Life

Exercise could help prevent age-related blindness

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Rethinking schizophrenia: Taming demons without drugs

Humans

Rethinking schizophrenia: Taming demons without drugs

Antipsychotic drugs may do more harm than good. The tide is turning towards gentler methods, from talking therapies to brain training, says Clare Wilson

Features

Health

Antipsychotic drugs are schizophrenia's hidden gulag

Leader

Health

Worried sick: What's up with today's rampant anxiety?

CultureLab

Health

Autism diagnosis change 'results in loss of treatment'

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Life

Psychobiotics: How gut bacteria mess with your mind

Opinion

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