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Do we make new neurons throughout our lives?

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Our brains may be able to make new neurons throughout adulthood

Most of our brain cells are in place at birth, but new research suggests we may keep producing new neurons throughout adulthood and even into our 80s

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Brain scans could reveal signs of childhood mistreatment

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Child abuse may change brain structure and make depression worse

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How to make your brain adaptive enough to cope with anything

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How to make your brain adaptive enough to cope with anything

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Brain scans reveal actors lose their sense of self when acting a role

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Brain scans reveal actors lose their sense of self when acting a role

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Exclusive: Brain zap therapy for aggression to be tested on prisoners

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How neuroscience is exploding the myth of male and female brains

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How neuroscience is exploding the myth of male and female brains

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Two people playing a ball game

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Women seem to have younger brains than men the same age

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An AI conference warns us why we need to mind our language

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An AI conference warns us why we need to mind our language

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cleaner wrasse fish

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The animal economists that can wheel and deal as well as any human

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Alzheimer’s leads to the loss of brain matter (right)

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Childhood hormone treatments may have spread Alzheimer’s proteins

Last century, tens of thousands of children were given growth hormone from dead bodies. Evidence is building that this may have raised their risk of Alzheimer’s disease

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Parrots are clever because their brains evolved the same way as ours

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Andy Clark: Why reality is a hallucination

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Parkinson’s disease may start in the appendix and travel to the brain

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Spinal implants are getting better at reversing paralysis

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