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The study also found increased risks of dementia and Parkinson’s disease as consultant said contact training during the week ‘should be a thing of the past’

Researchers call for action to reduce the risks of head impact and traumatic brain injury in all sports, as a new study finds former men's rugby internationals have more than double the risk of neurodegenerative disease, with players' risk of motor neurone disease 15 times that of the general population.

Scottish union legend Doddie Weir and league super star Rob Burrow are among the rugby players diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease - which kills nerves that carry messages from the brain to muscles

Lecanemab is the first drug to help improve the symptoms of Alzheimer’s by slowing the disease. These are very promising results, although the only data we have at the moment is from the drugmaker’s press release.

Jessica Coultas, from Hull, noticed she was struggling to keep up with her classmates at school from the age of nine - but it wasn't until she was 10 that she was formally diagnosed with dyslexia

Emerging scientific data suggests that social rejection — often in the form of heartbreak — can spark a similar firestorm of brain activity as physical pain.

A treatment that delays the spread of metastases by up to 80%.

I’m one of the people that needs to be educated, or re-educated, about concussions, brain injury and head trauma. I admit it.

There are changes you can make to your mealtimes, coffee routine, exercise and curtains ahead of the clocks changing