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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…

Wellbeing has become such a priceless (or in many cases pricey) endeavour that we can’t seem to get enough of it