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An expert answers your questions on depression for World Health Day 2017

Depression is the most common disabling illness, affecting over 300 million people worldwide.

A glimpse into the future of brain sciences

How much do we understand about how our brain works? Which technologies leverage this new understanding? What will be their impact on our day-to-day lives? How can we ensure that the bene...

Cómo garantizar que las futuras tecnologías del cerebro ayuden y no perjudiquen a la sociedad

Thomas Edison, una de las grandes mentes de la segunda revolución industrial, dijo una vez que "la principal función del cuerpo es cargar con el cerebro". La comprensión del cerebro human...

How to ensure future brain technologies will help and not harm society

Thomas Edison, one of the great minds of the second industrial revolution, once said that “the chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.” Understanding the human brain – ho...

Forget AI. The real revolution could be IA

This past Spring, AlphaGo — an artificial intelligence (AI) machine — beat the human world champion in a five-game match of Go, an ancient Chinese board game once considered so difficult ...

El modo en que trabajamos es terrible para el cerebro. Cinco maneras de contraatacar

Lo único constante en nuestras vidas, y en cualquier negocio, es la certeza del cambio. Este no está bajo nuestro control. Ningún líder puede prevenir sorpresas, interrupciones, desafíos ...

Your questions on Alzheimer's answered by an expert

Dr Murali Doraiswamy, a physician at Duke University Health System and coauthor of The Alzheimer's Action Plan, responds to questions sent in from our Facebook audience.

The way we work is terrible for our brains. 5 ways to fight back

The only thing constant in our lives, and in any business, is the certainty of change. We can’t control that. No leader can prevent surprises, disruptions, challenges, or unforeseen event...

Seven ideas from around the world that could boost your health

In the rancorous debate over Obamacare, we often forget that the US healthcare system ranks at the bottom of most developed countries — at least when it comes to money spent and benefits ...

Why a scorned theory of Alzheimer’s is hot again

Could a virus or a bacterium give you Alzheimer’s disease? The idea may sound far-fetched, but the hypothesis that microbes may be the missing link in explaining Alzheimer’s is now gainin...

3 mitos sexistas desacreditados sobre el cerebro

Las mujeres ahora ocupan o compiten por algunos de los cargos más importantes del mundo, Presidente de los EE. UU., Corea del Sur y Taiwán, Primer Ministro del Reino Unido, Bangladesh, My...

3 sexist myths about the brain, debunked

Women are now occupying or vying for some of the most important positions across the world – President of South Korea and Taiwan, Prime Minister of the UK, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Namibia...

Is this the key to fighting Alzheimer’s?

Every four seconds, somewhere in the world, there is a new case of dementia. Alzheimer’s disease, which was considered rare 50 years ago, has today reached pandemic proportions, affecting...

5 brain technologies that will shape our future