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The COVID pandemic has introduced many scientific and medical terms into our everyday language. Many of us are now fluent in conversations about viral strains, PCR tests and mortality rates. “Brain fog” has joined these ranks to describe a now-familiar symptom of COVID and long COVID.

Children move away from taking naps when the brain’s hippocampus is more developed, experts say.

Researchers said that when young children have an immature hippocampus, it reaches a limit of memories that can be stored without them being forgotten, triggering the need for sleep

PATNA: Veteran CPI leader and four-term member of the Bihar legislative council, Kedar Nath Pandey, died on Monday, party sources said. Pandey, 79, breathed his last in the early hours at a hospital in Gurugram, where he was admitted following a brain hemorrhage.

Plans for a care home and supported-living flats in Garthamlock, which would also be available to tenants with learning disabilities, have been approved by council officials.

In a move that will have ramifications for collision sports, the US National Institutes of Health has formally acknowledged a causal link between repeated blows to the head and CTE

Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE) shows promise as a way to treat addiction, but also implies that meditating can be useful outside that context.

For millennia, people have used mind-altering techniques to achieve different states of consciousness, envision spiritual figures, connect with nature, or simply for the fun of it. Psychedelic substances, in particular, have a long and controversial history. But for just as long, people have been having these experiences without drugs too,…

As Alzheimer’s cases grow, scientists have been deep in debate over its causes. Now treatments are on the horizon, the new race is to ready the health system.

The South Australian government is planning to roll out a new mass media campaign about the impact of using methamphetamine, including crystal methamphetamine or “ice” and powdered methamphetamine or “speed”.

A post-mortem scan of rugby great Paul Green's brain revealed CTE. The neuropathologist that scanned it says sporting codes need to do more to protect their athletes.