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Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research and Harvard Medical School have now shown in mice that communication in the brain changes during a diet: The nerve cells that mediate the feeling of hunger receive stronger signals, so that the mice eat significantly more after the diet and…

Neuroscientists have long assumed that neurons are greedy, hungry units that demand more energy when they become more active, and the circulatory system complies by providing as much blood as they require to fuel their activity. Indeed, as neuronal activity increases in response to a task, blood flow to that…

'The hope is that these insights will help health professionals recognise anxious and non-anxious depression, and to treat accordingly'

Lawyers for brain surgeon Charlie Teo have warned a disciplinary board to avoid "hindsight bias" in ruling over surgeries he performed that left two