Mental Health and Brain Health

9 unexpected things we learned about mental health and our brains in 2024 : Shots

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About 40% of dementia cases could be delayed or prevented by addressing 14 modifiable risk factors, according to a Lancet commission report.

“Brain rot” is the Oxford word of the year for 2024, and it’s pretty much what it sounds like: a perceived mental decline from consuming too much online media. If just reading that definition has you worried about your gray

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The Relationship Between Brain Health and Lifestyle

Psychological profiles associated with mental, cognitive and brain health in middle-aged and older adults

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Participant characteristics

A total of 823 cognitively unimpaired participants from the Barcelona Brain Health Initiative (BBHI; including n = 750 with baseline mental, cognitive and/or brain health data and n = 533 with both magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and cognitive

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Mental Health and Brain Health

Rethinking mental health: The body’s impact on the brain

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Psychiatric conditions have long been regarded as issues of “mental health,” a term that inherently ties our understanding of these disorders to the brain. But the brain does not exist in a vacuum. Growing evidence over the past 10 years

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