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Are music lessons the key to smarter kids?

My youngest son is now 13, but when he was four, he started piano lessons. Four years old ...
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The neurobiology of the afternoon nap

One seemingly ordinary Saturday afternoon in June 2013, an unusual experience awaited me in a furniture store: I ...

Busy brains build resilience to ageing. (Part 6 of Your Brain at 100)

This is part 6 of a series of lessons in brain health from our elders — those folk ...

How to break bad habits using neuroscience

What are habits? Your brain is fundamentally lazy. When it can, it wires thoughts, emotions, or behaviours into ...

REFIRE: 6 steps to rewire your brain (and master anything).

You can teach an old brain new tricks. But it takes more than simply waving a magic neuroplasticity ...

8 ways to encourage a growth mindset in kids.

Of all the topics I've written about over the years, how to foster a growth mindset in our ...
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Should teenagers sleep in and start school later in the day?

  Would teenagers do better in their exams if they could sleep in and start school later in ...

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