Humans
Are you a nice person? Brain scans can tell how generous you are
People who are more empathetic have more activity in the brain鈥檚 鈥済enerosity centre鈥�, and are faster at learning how to reward others in a game
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Health
Does eating more salt prevent migraines and severe headaches?
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First wearable brain scanner to probe people with amazing gifts
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Environment
Cherry or rhubarb? Orangutan mixes tasty cocktails in its mind
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Virtual reality helps eight paralysed people feel their legs
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First real-time look at genes switching off in live human brains
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Parents giving unproven IQ-boosting drugs to kids with Down’s
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Health
Best look yet at how our brain’s sewage system flushes out waste
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Environment
Baby monkeys smile in their sleep – more so than human babies
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Health
Being fat in middle age may shrink your brain鈥檚 white matter
People who are overweight have less white matter in their brains, making them look a decade older 鈥� an effect that doesn鈥檛 seem to kick in until middle age
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Life
Found: brain switches that wake flies up and send them to sleep
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Mind
Crystal mimics brain cell to sift through giant piles of data
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Health
Mysterious dark brain cells linked to Alzheimer鈥檚 and stress
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Alzheimer鈥檚 drug that failed trial may still slow disease
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