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LIFESTYLE LIFESTYLE Could creatine be the new coffee? UAE doctors explain if it can beat brain fog after a sleepless night

Manipulating the gut microbiome could become a powerful tool for preserving brain health and resilience as people age, according to research led by Professor Paola Tognini, a neuroscientist at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy

New research from Florida International University is uncovering how sleep quality after traumatic brain injury (TBI) may be the key to preventing seizures and reducing the risk of post-traumatic epilepsy. Scientists are exploring how sleep, brain rewiring, and innovative treatments like transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) work together to safeguard brain health

There is a quote often attributed to author and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.: “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” The human brain is remarkable because it keeps adapting throughout life. It learns, repairs, remembers, and reshapes itself every single day.Yet many people unknowingly…

People with metabolic syndrome tend to have brains that appear older than their actual age, according to a new study published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association. The new findings provide fresh insights into the biological processes that may link metabolic health to the brain

Scientists have discovered how damage to the myelin sheath – the insulating layer around nerve fibres – affects brain activity during sleep. 

On most days, eight-year-old Shawn Letford is balancing the same things many children his age juggle: homework, family life, and hobbies like playing Rubik’s Cube. But Shawn also spends time speaking to audiences about healthy brain development, neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and creativity—topics most adults rarely discuss, let alone explain to children

Each night, your sleep comes in stages: After you drift off, you slip from light sleep into the deepest, most restorative type of sleep, and your brain waves hit their slowest point. About an hour later, your brain waves pick back up again in REM sleep, and that’s when your dreams might start to get…

“It’s critically important that we sleep to restore every cell in every organ of our body, including the brain. We have plenty of data to support how our brain, mood and psychiatric function decline in the absence of chronically good sleep,” explained Nancy Foldvary, DO, a sleep specialist for Cleveland Clinic

Women are more than twice as likely as men to develop stress-related conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but the biological mechanisms underlying that risk have remained poorly understood. New research from Emory University School of Medicine provides the first direct evidence in humans that the ovarian hormone estradiol plays a key role in…