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Interoception: This ‘sixth sense’ could be key to better mental health

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Interoception: This ‘sixth sense’ could be key to better mental health

How our brains interpret signals from within the body has a surprisingly big influence on the mind, an insight that is leading to new ways to tackle conditions like depression, anxiety and eating disorders

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Illustration of SARS-Cov-2 virus

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Covid-19 brain fog: What we know about lingering neurological effects

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speech buble heart like sun and lamp with happy smile face with eyes narrowed on foggy window spattered with drops city, yellow red color, copyspace

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Science is increasingly revealing how we can boost our happiness

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What really makes people happy – and can you learn to be happier?

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What really makes people happy – and can you learn to be happier?

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The happiness revolution: How to boost the well-being of society

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The happiness revolution: How to boost the well-being of society

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The Woebot Labs Inc. application is demonstrated for a photograph in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Friday, July 7, 2017. Woebot Labs develops health care software which offers a platform that makes therapy accessible and stigma-free for patient suffering from anxiety, depression, and mental health issues. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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I bonded with a quirky robot after chatting to it about my fears

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How to hack your stress and turn it into a positive force in your life

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How to hack your stress and turn it into a positive force in your life

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Calls to mental health helplines rose by a third in covid-19 lockdowns

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A psilocybin therapy trial therapy room.

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Psilocybin therapy steps closer to credibility with largest trial yet

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Alzheimer's disease. Series of coloured computed tomography (CT) scans of an axial section through the head of a 74-year-old patient with Alzheimer's disease. The front of the brain (brown) is at the top. Alzheimer's is a neurodegenerative disease and a common cause of dementia in the elderly. It causes brain atrophy (decrease in size), shown here by the enlarged ventricle cavities (white, at centre of brain) and the widened pale blue regions. The brain shrinkage caused by Alzheimer's disease leads to memory loss, confusion, personality changes and ultimately death. The cause of Alzheimer's disease is not known and there is no cure.

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Treating Alzheimer's as having many causes may help us beat it

We have focused on the same suspected cause of Alzheimer's for too long. Thinking of it as resulting from multiple overlapping risk factors gives us an opportunity to fight back

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Why Alzheimer’s is not a single disease – and why that matters

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Coming off antidepressants risks relapse – but so does staying on them

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People living in dense UK cities are more likely to feel lonely

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Little evidence linking depression and long working hours, says WHO

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