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How the pill impacts adolescent mental health.

This week, I’m starting with the teenage brain and the pill. It’s a topic that is often discussed ...

Baby Brain is not a brain problem: evidence

The Australian media picked up a new Monash Uni study on “Baby Brain” this week, and I've been commenting both ...

Singing and dancing keep your brain young

I’m writing this in the week leading up to opening night for my local community theatre production of ...

What babies’ brains might teach us about Alzheimer’s disease.

This week, I was stopped in my tracks (well, to be honest, it stopped my scroll!) by a ...
A new way of thinking about menopausal brain fog

A new way of thinking about brain fog.

It’s easy to talk about midlife or menopausal brain fog as if there must be one clear cause ...

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