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Gut Health and Brain Health. What’s the Connection?

Find out how your brain’s health can affect your gut, and how a healthy gut can help improve your mood and cognition

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This Is Your Brain on No Sleep

We need those 7 to 9 hours to keep our brains healthy in the short term — and for the long haul

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What Is Aphasia? An Expert Explains the Condition Forcing Bruce Willis to Retire From Acting

In a message posted on Instagram, Willis’ daughter, Rumer Willis, said that the condition was “impacting his cognitive abilities.”

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What You Eat Can Reprogram Your Genes – an Expert Explains the Emerging Science of Nutrigenomics

Along with calories and nutrients, food can influence the genetic blueprints that shape who you are

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50 Years Ago, the First CT Scan Let Doctors See Inside a Living Skull – Thanks to an Eccentric Engineer at the Beatles’ Record Company

Hounsfield's innovation transformed medicine. He shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1979 and was knighted by the Queen in 1981.

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As a Political Commentator and Consultant, I Was Used to Pivoting. But Brain Surgery Spun My Life in a Whole New Direction.

When I found out I had a brain tumor, I had to accept that God had a different plan for me

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Jeri Ward

I Survived a Stroke at 30

For years, I ignored my chronic stress and headache pain. It almost cost me my life.

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Keep Your Brain Healthy at Every Age

It's not just about memory games and puzzles. Diet, exercise and social connections also play a big part in brain health.

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Vape Sellers Are Using Popular Music Videos to Promote E-Cigarettes to Young People – and It’s Working

Teens and young adults spend several hours a day looking at their phones and watching videos, many of which might contain product placements for vaping.

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