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Silent X chromosome genes 'reawaken' in older females, perhaps boosting brain power, study finds

Females have one active X chromosome and one dormant X chromosome in each cell. But a study suggests that genes on the dormant X get "reawakened" later in life, potentially giving the brain a boost.

LiveScience

The power of encountering mixed emotions

Simultaneous joy and rage aren't contradictions — they're part of a spectrum of emotional intelligence

Salon

Clemency Burton-Hill: ‘I can say now, after my brain injury, that music can save a life’

The broadcaster on a new documentary about how music helped her recover from catastrophic brain injury, having a tricky name, and why Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta and Declan Rice are her ‘angels’

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Common herbs like rosemary may have inspired a breakthrough Alzheimer’s treatment

The mice tested with the drug showed cognitive improvement and less harmful protein build-ups in the brain.

Euronews

'I won $10 million in MrBeast’s game show after losing my job': Overnight multimillionaire Jeff Allen is using the fortune to find a cure for his son’s rare disease

Ever wondered what it’d be like to win millions in a Mr Beast competition? Jeff Allen did exactly that. He reveals exclusively to Fortune what it’s like winning $10 million, how he’s investing the cash, and why he’s not going to let it put a pin in his career.

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Teddi Mellencamp struggling with eye pain and swelling

Teddi Mellencamp has been struggling with eye pain and swelling in the wake of her brain surgery.

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The Severance season 2 finale just made me rethink the entire show – and it’s so much darker than I expected

Opinion | The Severance season 2 finale puts the entire show into perspective and it's more wild than I thought

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Davina McCall says removal of brain tumour ‘hardest thing’ she has experienced

The TV presenter was among a host of presenters for Red Nose Day.

Evening Standard

Davina McCall breaks down as she says brain tumour removal was ‘hardest thing’

The TV presenter was among a host of presenters for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day

The Independent UK

The reason why we don’t remember being a baby revealed

Researchers at Yale suggest we can encode memories in our early years, so what happens to them?

The Independent UK

Gross failure in basic care by midwives led to death of Ida Lock, coroner rules

Ida Lock suffered a serious brain injury due to a lack of oxygen around the time of her delivery at Royal Lancaster Infirmary in 2019.

Evening Standard

At 40 I'm terrified of dementia — here's what the experts say will save me from it

I exercise five times a week, eat healthily, but I'm terrified about the brain condition . Here's what the experts say I must do

Evening Standard

New brain scan method could help people with drug-resistant epilepsy

Researchers develop technique that can accurately pinpoint lesions, increasing chances of successful surgery

The Guardian - UK

New scanner technique may offer hope for patients with drug-resistant epilepsy

The method could result in more people with the condition being eligible for life-changing surgery.

Evening Standard

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Infants Remember More Than You Think, New Study Reveals

Our earliest years are a time of rapid learning, yet we typically cannot recall specific experiences from that period -- a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia.

Euronews

Experimental drug may slow dementia onset for patients with rare genetic form of Alzheimer’s

The drug targets amyloid plaques that build up in the brain years before symptoms appear.

The Independent UK

New drug could reduce risk of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease

The results boost hopes similar treatments being developed to target more common forms of Alzheimer's - that appear when people reach their sixties, seventies and eighties - might also be effective.

The Independent UK

James Cracknell on recovering from a brain injury and the importance of asking for help

The double Olympic gold medallist tells Lisa Salmon how counselling and cutting-edge scans have helped him rediscover his old self.

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The Independent UK

Researchers find a hint at how to delay Alzheimer's symptoms. Now they have to prove it

An experimental treatment appears to postpone Alzheimer's symptoms in some people genetically destined to get the disease at a young age

Latin Times

Man Killed by 'Catastrophic Brain Trauma' at Six Flags After Riding 'Unreasonably Dangerous' Roller Coaster, Lawsuit Claims

The parents of a man who died from brain trauma after riding a roller coaster at Six Flags filed a lawsuit accusing the park of negligent disregard for rider safety.

The Independent UK

Six Flags roller coaster caused college graduate’s fatal brain injury, family says

Christopher Hawley died a day after riding the ‘unreasonably dangerous’ X2 roller coaster in June 2022

Android Central

Google's clinical sleep lead has cool ideas for the future of smartwatch sleep data

Sleep tracking on smartwatches keeps getting more complicated, but Google's sleep lead has even more ambitious dreams of what comes next.

The Conversation

Evolution: features that help finding a mate may lead to smaller brains

A longstanding question in evolutionary biology is how sexual selection influences how entire genomes develop. Sexual selection is where individuals with certain traits have higher reproductive success, leading to the spread of those traits throughout a species.

The Independent UK

A family tried to rush their U.S. born 10-year-old to the hospital. They landed on a deportation bus to Mexico instead

EXCLUSIVE DETAILS: A 10-year-old living in Texas was rushed to the hospital after brain surgery. Instead of receiving care, her parents ended up in the deportation system and now the family is living back in Mexico, Rhian Lubin reports

The Conversation

Shaken baby syndrome can cause permanent brain damage, long-term disabilities or death – a pediatrician examines the preventable tragedy

In the early 1990s when I was a young pediatrician, I was responsible for evaluating children with developmental and learning problems. Two unrelated boys, ages 7 and 9, were found to have IQs in the range of 60-70, which indicates a severe cognitive disability.

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