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Girls’ brains aged unusually rapidly during the covid-19 pandemic

Adolescents’ brains underwent accelerated ageing during the covid-19 pandemic, and the effect was more pronounced in girls than in boys

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Spinal cord stimulator dramatically reduces phantom limb pain

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Brain cells activated by stress may also give you a bad night's sleep

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Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024

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AI made from living human brain cells performs speech recognition

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Babies may start to learn language before they are born

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We may finally know which brain cells cause motion sickness

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Why free will doesn't exist, according to Robert Sapolsky

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Why free will doesn't exist, according to Robert Sapolsky

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We now have the most detailed description of the human brain ever

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Free will: Can neuroscience reveal if your choices are yours to make?

Philosophers have wrestled with the question of whether we are truly free to decide on our actions for centuries. Now, insights from genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology are shedding fresh light on the issue

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Claudio was born with a joint condition that restricted the range of motion in the joints of his neck

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Man who sees upside down provides clues on how we process faces

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Jellyfish can learn from experience even though they lack a brain

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Brain activity in speech production shown on a coloured functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRIf) scan

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The entire brain may be involved in language, not just a few regions

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2R61H1F Dean Lloyd (left) uses a touch screen monitor to test his Argus II eye implant at UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. Neuroscientist Matthew McMahon monitors Lloyd's progress. Lloyd, who has been completely blind for several years, can now see rough images of shapes and colors thanks to the experimental implant developed by Second Sight. (Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

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Doctors warn about the rise of people with obsolete medical implants

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