Instant Genius: The brain

Instant Genius: The brain

Everything you need to know about your brain, from how it works to what happens when it goes terribly wrong...


Vegetative states: Is anybody in there? © Sébastien Thibault

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Vegetative states: Is anybody in there?

1/30/2020
Groundbreaking new research has discovered that 15 per cent of coma patients might be conscious and aware of their surroundings. Now, the race is on to find out ways to bring them back.
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Teenagers: how to deal with your parents (and how they can understand your brain a little better) © Getty Images

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Teenagers: how to deal with your parents (and how they can understand your brain a little better)

12/23/2019
Are your parents driving you up the wall? Try not to worry, they’re just as baffled by this as you are.
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To death and back: what near-death experiences could tell us about dying © Carolina Rodriguez Fuenmayor

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To death and back: what near-death experiences could tell us about dying

1/2/2020
No one can give a first-person report on what it’s like to die, but near-death experiences and drug trips could offer us a glimpse beyond the veil.
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Sleep, drugs and mental health: how altered states of consciousness could keep us happy © Getty Images

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Sleep, drugs and mental health: how altered states of consciousness could keep us happy

11/9/2019
Every night, we experience an altered state of consciousness called dreaming. Could we harness this power to boost our mental health?
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Should you upgrade your brain? © Andy Potts

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Should you upgrade your brain?

11/14/2019
Mind-machine interfaces have the potential to upgrade our intelligence and supercharge our thinking. But at what cost?
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10 things you (probably) didn’t know about your mind © Getty Images

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10 things you (probably) didn’t know about your mind

8/21/2019
We can imagine that we must have the ultimate ‘inside knowledge’ of our minds. How wrong we are.
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