Written by Amy Beecham Is the pace and stress of autumn affecting your mental health? Psychologists say that developing a ‘quiet mind’ through meditation could help. When we think about the autumn and winter seasons, we often envisage a peaceful scene. It’s a time where we seek cosiness and wrap ourselves up against the elements, […]

Patients with two out of the three most common types of advanced breast cancer now have an average survival time of at least five years, according to a panel of experts at the Advanced Breast Cancer Sixth International Consensus Conference (ABC 6). When breast cancer spreads to other parts of the body (called metastatic or […]

Anxious and depressed Brits suffered the equivalent of up to SIX YEARS of natural memory decline in lockdown, study claims Exeter University and King’s College London experts carried out the research They found depressed adults saw six years of natural memory decline But happy over-50s saw no significant change in their mental health  Depressed Britons […]

Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering are using generative adversarial networks (GANs)—technology best known for creating deepfake videos and photorealistic human faces—to improve brain-computer interfaces for people with disabilities. In a paper published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, the team successfully taught an AI to generate synthetic brain activity data. The data, specifically neural […]

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Annoying co-workers, toxic bosses, never-ending piles of things to add to your to-do list – with all that going on, it can be hard to keep your cool in the workplace. The usual daily stress of work can start to mound up, making you an irritable, grumpy mess. It goes without saying that this isn’t […]

Copper has been clinically improving the lives of people since about 1500 BCE, when an Egyptian physician first recorded its use as a treatment for inflammation. Some 35 centuries later, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and Italy’s Catholic University of the Sacred Heart medical school have provided solid evidence that the first metal used medicinally […]

Royal nutritionist discusses intermittent fasting diet We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info The NHS says if it is detected and managed […]

Bruce Springsteen on making podcast with Barack Obama We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info The 72-year-old US born singer songwriter, whose […]

Family and friends who have become social recluses, or co-workers who feel depressed and are unable to come to work…most of us probably know someone in one of these situations. The prolonged stress of the COVID-19 pandemic has had several effects on mental health because people are continuously being stressed by changes in their environments, […]