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Just 2% of people say they’re doing all they can to optimise their brain health

If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain.

After fainting at school, Ellie Riccio's slurred speech leads to devastating diagnosis

The brain health of over 50s deteriorated more rapidly during the pandemic - even if they didn’t catch Covid

Research suggests the effect of missing a night’s sleep can be like a potent antidepressant that keeps the mood going for several days.

Nothing calls to mind nonsensical treatments and bizarre religious healing rituals as easily as the notion of Dark Age medicine. “The Saturday Night Live” sketch Medieval Barber Theodoric of York says it all with its portrayal of a quack doctor who insists on extracting pints of his patients’ blood in…

Humans are organised into around 200 nations, yet there are roughly 6,000 languages in existence. It therefore seems obvious that bilingualism is much more common than many of us might assume. This is an increasingly visible fact that appears to undermine the predominant model of “one state, one language”, a…

Cognitive function declined in older people during pandemic – regardless of whether or not they caught Covid

Paul Simons died seven weeks after diagnosis in November 2018 while his mother died 11 weeks later, aged 77.

Everything you need to know about cognitive decline and how to maintain a healthy brain

UK study finds cognitive function and working memory in older adults declined even if they were not infected with virus