Neurology

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Health & Medicine

Why women are more likely to ‘stress eat’

New research has discovered a brain pathway that drives stress-related eating, helping to explain what drives emotional overeating in women

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Health & Medicine

Why your brain health matters

On World Brain Day, work continues to provide access to life-changing therapies to improve life for those living with brain disorders to reduce disability

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Health & Medicine

What we now know about long COVID and our brains

Almost three years into the global pandemic, we may know more about Post-COVID-19 Neurological Syndrome (PCNS), but there’s a critical need for more global collaboration

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Health & Medicine

Working to stop MS in its tracks

On World Brain Day, work continues to diagnose multiple sclerosis earlier, provide access to life-changing treatments and improve the quality of life for those living with the condition

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Health & Medicine

What is Post-COVID-19 Neurological Syndrome?

There are many unknowns about the long-term effects of COVID-19 on the brain – but new research investigates the potential impact of Post COVID-19 Neurological Syndrome (PCNS)

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Health & Medicine

Grasping COVID-19’s long neurological tail

As parts of the world emerge from lockdown, psychiatrists and neurologists warn that we need to know more about the long-lasting neurological and neuropsychiatric impacts of COVID-19

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Health & Medicine

How smelling can help your brain

As we age our sense of smell can decline and this can predict cognitive decline, but practising smelling might help to boost our brains

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Health & Medicine

MS and new ways of regenerating our brain’s insulation

New research finds that stimulating myelin production in our brains could help people living with degenerative and disabling neurological diseases like Multiple Sclerosis

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