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Neuroscience has transformed our understanding of the brain and promises treatments for devastating disorders that affect millions.

Charts map rapid growth and slow decline of brains

06 April 2022

An international team of researchers has created a series of brain charts spanning our entire lifespan 鈥 from a 15 week old fetus to 100 year old adult 鈥 that show how our brains expand rapidly in early life and slowly shrink as we age.聽

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Death Angel (cropped)

Musical tastes offer a window into how you think

22 Jul 2015

Do you like your jazz to be Norah Jones or Ornette Coleman, your classical music to be Bach or Stravinsky, or your rock to be Coldplay or Slayer? The...

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African universities reap fruits of fly research

10 Jul 2015

Fruit flies are proving the unlikely source of a new initiative to help improve postgraduate research opportunities in Africa, with the support of...

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Tokyo Stock Exchange (cropped)

Traders鈥 hormones 鈥榤ay destabilise financial markets鈥

02 Jul 2015

探花直播hormones testosterone and cortisol may destabilise financial markets by making traders take more risks, according to a study published today in...

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Brain coral

Study suggests new treatment for impulsivity in some dementia patients

25 Jun 2015

Restoring the low levels of the chemical serotonin may help improve brain function and reduce impulsivity in some dementia patients, according to...

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thinking

探花直播price of a happy ending can be bad decision-making, say researchers

10 Jun 2015

Research using gambling techniques shows that even very recent experiences carry a 鈥榯emporal markdown鈥 so that those more immediate carry...

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Sheep

Counting on sheep

10 Jun 2015

Sheep are smarter than we might think, with brains surprisingly similar to ours. These similarities are helping researchers to study a devastating...

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A-Level students pick Cambridge brains

01 Jun 2015

Is drug addiction hereditary? Why do emotions dominate our earliest memories? Are robots a threat to humanity? These were just some of the thorny...

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Kendrick Lamar

Exploring mental health through Kendrick Lamar鈥檚 lyrics

01 May 2015

Kendrick Lamar鈥檚 major-label debut album good kid m.A.A.d. city , released in October 2012, provides rich narratives relating to important mental...

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3D image of human neurons in a dish

Link between proteins points to possibilities for future Alzheimer鈥檚 treatments

23 Apr 2015

Researchers have identified how proteins that play a key role in Alzheimer鈥檚 disease are linked in a pathway that controls its progression, and that...

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Listen to your heart

Listen to your heart: why your brain may give away how well you know yourself

21 Apr 2015

鈥淟isten to your heart,鈥 sang Swedish pop group Roxette in the late Eighties. But not everyone is able to tune into their heartbeat, according to an...

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Brain Art

Thinking inside the box

31 Mar 2015

New research into the phenomenon of design fixation 鈥 allowing prior experience to blind us to new possibilities 鈥 may help in the development of new...

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Cambridge's Chemistry of Health programme awarded 拢17 million in funding

25 Mar 2015

New funding will support fundamental research into the molecular processes underlying human disorders such as Alzheimer鈥檚 and Parkinson鈥檚 diseases...

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