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Key Takeaways Quality sleep and daily physical activity form the foundation of your brain health.  Trying new hobbies or even letting your mind wander helps your brain stay flexible and build stronger connections. Small daily habits, like staying social or listening to music, can sharpen your thinking. Becoming smarter isn’t always about acing trivia night or speaking more than one …

The darkened ward held just six patients – all young women, all fast asleep. The air was heavy with the funk of unwashed bodies, and filled with tortured whimpers. If these women were dreaming, they were almost certainly having nightmares. This was psychiatrist Dr William Sargant’s so-called ‘Sleep Room,’ a sinister ward in a London hospital, where he subjected hundreds …

Doctors are criticizing a recent expert panel organized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that questioned the safety of taking antidepressants during pregnancy. Mykola Sosiukin/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mykola Sosiukin/Getty Images Nearly one in five pregnant women and new moms in this country suffers from anxiety and depression. And 6-8% of pregnant women are prescribed a group …

Doctors Are Begging People Trying To Lose Weight To Stop Doing This One Thing With Fruit originally appeared on Parade. “Shop the perimeter.” “Consume plenty of fruits and veggies.” These tips are common refrains in the weight loss space and also happen to be good health advice. However, one family physician sees patients who are often surprised that their weight …

You can only learn so much from watching 20-plus seasons of Grey’s Anatomy, so I’m asking real-life medical professionals: What’s a freaky fact about the human body that most people wouldn’t want to know? Maybe you’re an OB-GYN, and you know that ovaries can develop tumors with teeth… —u/_bbycake Maybe you’re a brain surgeon who knows that patients won’t feel …

Severe flu seasons in recent years have brought to light a little-known danger of influenza infections in kids: a rare brain disease called acute necrotizing encephalopathy, or ANE. It’s a fast-moving condition usually triggered by the flu, causing sudden brain swelling. It’s thought that the virus prompts the immune system to go haywire. Affected children can go from having mild …

Colorado head coach Deion Sanders provided his latest health update Monday and Coach Prime will be ready to go for the 2025 college football season. His health battles have been kept mostly under wraps, but Sanders even admitted he created a will in May. Sanders and the doctors present with him Monday, Dr. Janet Kukreia and CU athletic trainer Lauren …

Every summer for the past several years, including this summer, COVID cases have increased throughout the United States as people spend time in air-conditioned spaces and as summer travel peaks. Roughly half of the states in the country currently have increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections, said Dr. Matthew Lokant, an infectious disease specialist at the West Virginia University School of …

Exposure to a toxic metal as far back as childhood could raise the risk of developing dementia later in life, a first-of-its-kind study suggests. Researchers in Canada studied more than 600,000 older US adults who were exposed as children to high levels of lead, a toxic metal linked to autism, infertility and cancer. They found people who grew up in …

Obstetricians and psychiatrists are concerned about a recent FDA panel spreading misinformation about the potential harms of using SSRIs during pregnancy and postpartum. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: Should pregnant women and new mothers take antidepressants? A recent Food and Drug Administration panel raised questions about the safety of these drugs. An estimated 6% to 8% of pregnant women take antidepressants known …