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Mental Health Overhaul

04 Oct 2024

A new Cambridge network is turning to basic science in a bid to advance our understanding and treatment of mental health disorders

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thinking

The price of a happy ending can be bad decision-making, say researchers

10 Jun 2015

Research using gambling techniques shows that even very recent experiences carry a ‘temporal markdown’ so that those more immediate carry...

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Image, magnified a million times, of amyloid fibril, the type of protein  structures that are formed in Alzheimer’s

Scientists identify molecular trigger for Alzheimer’s disease

21 May 2013

New research establishes nature of malfunction in protein molecules that can lead to onset of dementia.

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Dr Mate Lengyel 'in search of lost memories'

In search of lost memories

01 Feb 2008

‘I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake. […] And suddenly the memory returns.’ À la Recherche du Temps...

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