Non-traumatic brain injury may sound like an oxymoron. It’s hard to imagine a pleasant or enjoyable way of damaging your brain, especially if it has lasting physical, mental, emotional and social consequences. Nevertheless, when it comes to acquired brain injuries (those sustained after birth), traumatic and non-traumatic is a significant division. Simply put, a non-traumatic […]
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Some people are born with brains in perfect health. Then they undergo a trauma, like an assault, sports injury or car accident. Acquiring a brain injury can have a profound impact on every part of your life, and like so many aspects of the brain, it’s an area where we still have lots to learn.
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If you’ve read anything about stem cells, you know that this is one of the most rapidly growing areas of interest in medicine. Scientists are constantly trying to find new ways to make the most of these little building blocks of the body. It is now possible to receive new stem cells through a transplant,
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Something is happening in the world of psychiatric treatments. Decades after drugs like psilocybin (you might know it better as the psychoactive component of magic mushrooms) and MDMA (often taken illegally as ecstasy) were criminalized because they were seen to have no medical use, scientists are researching how they might actually be able to treat
There’s a terrifying sort of pall hanging over electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). It conjures up these images of Nurse Ratched-type characters inflicting cruel torture on people with mental illness who should be receiving support. It’s true that ECT has been hideously abused in its past, but it is still used today as a treatment for some
If you want to know if there’s something wrong in the brain, it seems obvious that you need to take a look at the brain itself. There are some particularly annoying conditions that don’t show up on any kind of scan, but when the issue is structural, that’s when neuroimaging comes into play. You’ve probably
It’s that time of the year when everything’s damp, cold and generally gloomy, and it makes sense that you might be gloomy, too. However, if you start experiencing the symptoms of depression at the same time every year, it may be more than a natural response; it could be a medical condition known as seasonal
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It’s all very well saying we want to take care of brain health, but do we know what brain health actually means? The brain is a very complicated organ responsible for a lot of different roles in the body. How do we define a healthy brain, or assess when it goes wrong? Every organization seems
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Your brain is incredibly complicated and responsible for all sorts of different things. When it has problems, whether they’re physical or mental, you can feel it in all aspects of your life. There’s an intangible quality to mental illness, even when it does have a physical cause, and that can make it easy to forget
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Brains are complicated. Of course, pretty much every aspect of human bodies and health can be considered complicated, but the brain often seems exceptionally complicated. One consideration is its physical condition and performance, but there’s also a lot of less tangible psychological, social and emotional stuff. We’ve barely begun to scratch the surface. In this
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