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Ecstatic epilepsy: How seizures can be bliss

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Ecstatic epilepsy: How seizures can be bliss

Some epileptic seizures are blissful. Understanding why might shed light on religious awakenings, joy, and the sense of self, says Anil Ananthaswamy

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Mindscapes: The first recording of hallucinated music

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Mindscapes: The first recording of hallucinated music

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Dementia: A silver lining but no room for complacency

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Dementia: A silver lining but no room for complacency

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Defusing dementia: Why is risk of Alzheimer's falling?

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Defusing dementia: Why is risk of Alzheimer's falling?

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Soaring dementia rates prompt call for global action

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Coin-flip judgement of psychopathic prisoners' risk

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Coin-flip judgement of psychopathic prisoners' risk

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Are Alzheimer's and diabetes the same disease?

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Are Alzheimer's and diabetes the same disease?

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The night: Why they call it the graveyard shift

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The night: Why they call it the graveyard shift

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If diabetes causes Alzheimer's, we can beat it

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If diabetes causes Alzheimer's, we can beat it

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Inside the minds of the JFK conspiracy theorists

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Inside the minds of the JFK conspiracy theorists

Half a century after the assassination of US president John F. Kennedy, the psychology that drives conspiracy theories is well studied.

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Pregnant mother's stress affects baby's gut and brain

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Learn another language to delay three dementias

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Brain stimulation boosts social skills in autism

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The Halloween trick that conjures ghosts of the mind

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