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What’s the big idea? The time to start working on positive mental health outcomes should not be when a mental health crisis begins. In a country that has an epidemic of loneliness and rising ...

Poor sleep accelerates brain ageing and making it appear older than it actually is, researchers have found. Sleep helps to ...

A large new study shows that poor sleep habits may make the brain look physically older than about a year on average. For the study, researchers examined brain scans and sleep patterns of more than 27 ...

The way our brain ages isn’t similar to how the body does. Gray hair and wrinkles are easily spotted, but the changes inside ...

Getting older is inevitable — but illness doesn’t have to be. Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool that can measure how fast a person is aging and predict their future risk of chronic ...

The study revealed that sleep offers protective benefits for your brain. Those who don't sleep well or enough may be at risk of a prematurely aged brain, faster than the rest of their bodies. Sleep ...

Imagine walking into a doctor’s office at 45 and getting a single brain scan that tells you not just how old your brain is, but how quickly your entire body will age over the next decades. This isn’t ...

People with chronic insomnia may experience faster declines in memory and thinking skills as they age-along with brain changes that can be seen on imaging scans-than people who do not have chronic ...

We spend nearly a third of our lives asleep, yet sleep is anything but wasted time. Far from being passive downtime, it is an active and essential process that helps restore the body and protect the ...

Telltale features in standard brain images can reveal how quickly a person is ageing, a study of more than 50,000 brain scans has shown 1. Pivotal features include the thickness of the cerebral cortex ...

Traditional brain scans only show part of the picture. They can’t fully capture how different regions of the brain communicate—an essential factor in detecting neurological diseases early. Dr. Rahul ...