Neuroscience
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‘I began to wonder if I would be better off ending my life’: The invisible war wounds
As thousands of Queenslanders step on to their driveways at dawn on Saturday to honour the sacrifices men and women…
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Why do we dream?
Dreams are patterns of sensory information that occur when the brain is in a resting state – as in asleep.…
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Alzheimer’s: the ‘switch-on moment’ discovered
Two proteins are thought to be responsible: amyloid and tau. Ivan Koychev The Conversation The most widely accepted theory is…
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How five short intentions can help people recovering from depression stay on track
Some people have experienced very adverse experiences over their lives, leading to low self-esteem and other vulnerabilities which can make…
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Researchers suggest a less traditional assessment could help flag dementia earlier
Just before the new year, the pharma company Biogen released clinical trial data suggesting that its drug, aducanumab, could successfully…
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Alzheimers’ disease could be spotted years in advance, research suggests
The new study found that a protein predicting the onset of the condition can be spotted on average 15 months…
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Deep reading has become a lost art as digital screens take over, but you can retrain your brain
You are not alone — but you should be able to fix it. Rebecca Turner ABC News Some neuroscientists say…
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It’s 25 years since we redefined autism – here’s what we’ve learnt
The manual is the clinical “bible” that defines the criteria for the diagnosis of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions, and was…
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Bilingualism and dementia: how some patients lose their second language and rediscover their first
But what happens when the present is experienced through a different language than the one spoken in childhood? Authors The…
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‘You’ll get through it’: Three Victorians tell an optimistic tale about mental illness
Driving into work as a pharmacist he’d be brimming with rage and irritation and he had no idea why. Miki…
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Getting by on six hours?
They’ve been called the “sleepless elite”. Sophie Aubrey The Age Barack Obama, Julia Gillard and Elon Musk would get six…
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Scientists Now Know How Sleep Cleans Toxins From the Brain
Laura Lewis and her team of researchers have been putting in late nights in their Boston University lab. Sara Harrison…
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When you say you’re ‘stressed’ at work, you could be disguising a more specific problem
For many of us, it’s a number we’d need more than two hands to count. Anna Kelsey – Sugg &…
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World’s largest study exposes the myths of dementia
Brace Bateman might forget a person’s name or where he had left his keys. Melissa Cunningham The Age “Gradually, it…
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Silicon Valley wants to read your mind – here’s why you should be worried
The social media giant recently announced a breakthrough in its plan to create a device that reads people’s brainwaves to…
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The politics of fear: How fear goes tribal, allowing us to be manipulated
Fear is arguably as old as life. It is deeply ingrained in the living organisms that have survived extinction through…
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