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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…

A new study, led by researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich, found that staying awake for 28 hours causes aphysical buildup of connectionsbetween brain cells. Their results provide the first direct evidence in living humans that a primary function of sleep is to reset overloaded neural pathways

Researchers found that cohabiting people share certain microbes regardless of the ‘proximity’ of their relationship. Siblings, parents and children all shared similar numbers of microbial strains