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Sleep 'prioritizes memories we care about'

Posted in Medicine on 11th Sep, 2016
by Alex Muller

A study has found that during sleep, the experiences you care about are more likely to enter your long-term memory.

Ketamine component produces improvement in resistant depression within 2 hours

Posted in Medicine on 10th Sep, 2016
by Alex Muller

Esketamine, component of the general anesthetic ketamine, shows rapid and significant improvement in depressive patients.

Physicists Go Hunting for Consciousness

Posted in Science on 7th Sep, 2016
by Alex Muller

It was only recently that physicists shifted their attentions from concepts like the Big Bang, quantum information and began tendering their two cents on consciousness.

Pollution particles 'get into brain'

Posted in Science on 7th Sep, 2016
by Alex Muller

The finding, described as "dreadfully shocking" by the researchers, raises a host of new questions about the health risks of air pollution.

Brain radiotherapy 'no benefit' for lung cancer spread

Posted in Medicine on 6th Sep, 2016
by Alex Muller

Whole brain radiotherapy is of no benefit to people with lung cancer which has spread to the brain, says research in the Lancet.