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Anxiety can disrupt your attention

Health

High levels of anxiety can slow down your reaction times

People with anxiety often have attention control problems. Now it seems anxiety can significantly slow down reaction times – an effect that gets worse with age

News

Anorexia may be linked to hundreds of genetic variants

Health

Anorexia is a metabolic disorder as well as a psychiatric one

News

Women have a higher risk of bone fracture after menopause

Health

Social stress linked to bone density loss in postmenopausal women

News

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Life

US suicide rate at its highest since the end of the second world war

News

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Health

US suicide rate at its highest since the end of the second world war

News

Depression

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Depression

Antidepressants

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Antidepressants

How much sleep do you need?

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How much sleep do you need?

Auckland, New Zealand

Health

New Zealand wants to make people happy, not rich - will it work?

Analysis

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Health

How getting more daylight can improve your mental and physical health

Spending less time outside and more time in dim artificial light is disrupting our body clocks and undermining our health. The good news? A little daylight goes a long way

Features

Technology

Rage, tech and Miley Cyrus: What the new Black Mirror will bring

Culture

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Dementia

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Alzheimer's disease

Mind

A quarter of people who meditate experience negative mental states

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