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Menopause and sleep problems: are you too hot to sleep?

YOUR BRAIN ON MENOPAUSE: In this seven-part series, I explore menopause from a brain health perspective with a particular focus ...

This is your brain on menopausal hot flashes

YOUR BRAIN ON MENOPAUSE: In this seven-part series I explore menopause from a brain health perspective with a particular focus ...
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Are menopause symptoms are all in your head? Or brain?

YOUR BRAIN ON MENOPAUSE: In this seven-part series I explore menopause from a brain health perspective with a particular focus ...

This is your brain on menopause.

YOUR BRAIN ON MENOPAUSE: In this seven-part series I explore menopause from a brain health perspective with a particular focus ...

When meditation fails. Alternative ways to calm an anxious mind.

Meditation and mindfulness are popular stress-busting tools. Interest in meditation and mindfulness as ways to reduce stress has ...

The teenage brain and COVID. Telling stories might help.

In a recent Conversation article, Donna Pendergast, Griffith University and Stephen Dobson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University ...

The neurobiology of traumatic brain injury and sports concussion – a silent epidemic.

Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide.Each year about 69 million people ...

A beginner’s guide to sex differences in the brain

Donna L. Maney, Emory University Asking whether there are sex differences in the human brain is a bit ...

Once a mother, always a mother (just ask your brain).

by Winnie Orchard, PhD student, Turner Institute of Brain and Mental Health and Monash Biomedical Imaging, at Monash ...

Lifelong mental health: few reach midlife untouched by mental illness.

Mental health statistics get sliced, diced and interpreted in multiple ways, and rarely make for good news. But, ...

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