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World Brain Tumour Day: Why awareness and a healthy lifestyle matters

Brain tumours do not announce themselves. Learn how to read the signs, live smart and stay ahead with affordable test options and lifestyle tips that protect your brain

Multiple Sclerosis in India: Symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, cost explained

Multiple Sclerosis cases are rising in India, especially among women, with experts stressing early diagnosis, access to high-efficacy therapy, and supportive care

World Multiple Sclerosis Day 2025: History, significance, theme and more

With the theme 'My MS diagnosis', World MS Day 2025 on May 30 highlights the urgency of early detection, access to care, and solidarity with MS patients worldwide

Working 52+ hours a week may physically change your brain, warns new study

New research links 52+ hour work weeks to brain changes affecting memory, decision-making and emotional regulation in healthcare worker

Delhi opens first brain health clinic in Dwarka, 10 more to follow

Delhi's first brain health clinic at Indira Gandhi Hospital in Dwarka will offer diagnosis and care for neurological and mental health conditions with 10 more clinics planned

Sitting too long may shrink your brain-even if you exercise daily

A new seven-year study shows that prolonged sitting-even with regular exercise-is linked to brain shrinkage, memory loss, and Alzheimer's risk, especially in genetically vulnerable adults

Brain rot and screen overload: How your phone may be wrecking your focus

Endless scrolling may feel harmless, but experts warn it can erode attention span, memory, and mental clarity-here's how to recognise and reverse the damage

Damage to brain's self-control region may fuel political passions: Study

A study has found that damage to the prefrontal cortex in the brain that helps with self-control and reasoning could intensify one's political feelings, while damage to brain structure 'amygdala', which is involved in emotional processing, could bring them down. Conducted on Vietnam War veterans, the study compared people who had very localised brain lesions (abnormal change or injury) with those who did not. Researchers have thus identified for the first time which brain networks regulate political passion. "While most people have not sustained brain injuries akin to those experienced by the veterans in the study, our findings tell us what neural circuits are at play for the population at large," senior author Jordan Grafman, a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Northwestern University, US, said. For the study, published in the journal Brain, the researchers analysed the behaviour of 124 male US military veterans with penetrating head trauma and 35 ...

Having children may keep your brain younger and fitter, says new study

The research suggests that despite the challenges of parenting, such as exhaustion and stress, having children can benefit the brain in the long run

Inflammation in vital brain region could be driving long Covid: Study

Symptoms of long Covid, including fatigue and brain fog, have been linked to damage to the brainstem or the brain region, which acts as a "critical junction" between consciousness and all that is physically happening in the body, according to a study. The brainstem connects the spinal cord to two main parts of the brain -- cerebrum and cerebellum. Often dubbed as the 'control centre' of involuntary functions, the brainstem regulates basic life-sustaining activities such as breathing, heart rate and sleep, and located at the base of the brain. Symptoms of long Covid have been studied to persist in some patients for up to two years following initial infection. The previous studies have found prolonged inflammation to be one of the main drivers of long Covid. In this study, the researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, UK, looked at high resolution MRI brain scans of 30 patients, who had severe COVID-19 early in the pandemic, and found that the infection caused ...

Spike protein changes found to help Coronavirus infect brain: Study

Changes in the spike protein enhanced the ability of the coronavirus to infect the brain, which could underlie the brain-related symptoms of the disease, including brain fog of long Covid, according to a new study. The spike protein directs the virus, SARS-CoV-2, how to enter human cells before infecting them with COVID-19. The exact causes of long Covid, which persists for months after the initial infection, and its brain-affecting symptoms are still not known and are being widely studied around the world. The study could, therefore, help scientists understand these aspects better and may lead to specific treatments to protect and clear the virus from the brain, according to researchers at Northwestern University, UK, and the University of Illinois-Chicago, US. For the study, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, the researchers infected mice with the coronavirus. As the virus multiplied itself within the host, the researchers compared the spike proteins of the viruses in

How to detect brain tumours in your children? Here are the 8 warning signs

Brain tumour in children is a very serious issue which needs timely treatment. Here are the 8 warning signs that you should look out for before it gets too late

Climate change may impact people with brain conditions: Lancet study

Climate change is likely to negatively affect the health of people suffering from brain conditions such as migraine and Alzheimer's, new research published in The Lancet Neurology journal has found. Extreme temperatures, both low and high, and greater changes over the course of the day -- driven by climate change -- were shown to have an impact on brain diseases, explained lead researcher Sanjay Sisodiya from the University of College London's Institute of Neurology, UK. "Night-time temperatures may be particularly important as higher temperatures through the night can disrupt sleep. Poor sleep is known to aggravate a number of brain conditions," he said. The study, reviewing 332 papers published from around the world between 1968 and 2023, looked at 19 different nervous system conditions, including stroke, migraine, Alzheimer's, meningitis, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis. The researchers found an increased number of admissions, disabilities or deaths resulting from a stroke due t

Climate change could lead to spread, worsening of mental conditions: Study

"In order to work properly, the brain has to be maintained within a relatively narrow temperature range," said Sanjay Sisodiya, a professor at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology

Sadhguru undergoes brain surgery after 'month-long headache': What we know

Sadhguru had been expressing complaints of worsening headaches for the last four weeks. On March 17, a brain scan revealed a massive bleeding in his skull, leading to an emergency surgery

World Thinking Day 2024: Date, History and all about its importance

The World Thinking Day celebrates the friendship, sisterhood, and empowerment of girls and young women everywhere. It promotes gender equality and raises awareness of global issues

International Epilepsy Day 2024: Check date, theme, symptoms and prevention

International Epilepsy Day 2024 is marked every year on February 12 to make masses aware of the disease. Over 50 million people in the world are living with epilepsy

AI model could predict onset of psychosis using brain scans, finds research

Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can predict the onset of psychosis in people using brain scans. They said that the model, trained on brain scans from people globally, could be helpful in clinical settings, as earlier intervention typically leads to better outcomes with less negative impact on people's lives, even as most experiencing psychosis recover fully. Psychosis is a mental state characterised by being out of touch with reality and symptoms can include delusions, hallucinations or radical changes in behaviour and thinking. The condition has no single cause, but can be triggered by trauma, drug or alcohol use, or a genetic predisposition. "At most only 30 per cent of clinical high-risk individuals later have overt psychotic symptoms, while the remaining 70 per cent do not," said associate professor Shinsuke Koike from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and the corresponding author of the study ...

Everything to know about Musk's Neuralink and its first human brain implant

For the first time Musk has given the implant device a name

Musk announces successful brain implant procedure in 1st human recipient

Neuralink's brain implant aims to help people with traumatic injuries operate computers using only their thoughts