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A new study by researchers from the University of Bern, Switzerland suggests that dreams - especially those that simultaneously appear realistic, but, upon a closer look, bizarre - help our brain learn and extract generic concepts from previous experiences.

Children who spent an above-average time playing video games were shown to have increased their intelligence by 2.5 IQ points more than average in a new study.

The bark of the Galbulimima belgraveana tree has long been used by indigenous people for both healing and ceremony. A tea brewed from the bark not only induces a dreamlike state but is said to ease pain and fever. To probe these effects, researchers have isolated more than 40 unique chemicals from the tree bark.

New research has indicated the short-term pain relief offered by anti-inflammatory drugs could lead to harder-to-treat long-term pain.

Stress and trauma during adolescence can lead to long-term health consequences such as psychiatric disorders, which may arise from neurodevelopmental effects on brain circuitry.

People with higher levels of empathy are more capable of understanding emotion in music, indicating that music could be used alongside therapeutic techniques for social skills training.

The first international consensus has been published on how to diagnose and treat a rare condition, sometimes known as ‘dancing eyes and feet syndrome’.

QUT genetic researchers have found blood proteins that cause migraine and have a shared link with Alzheimer’s disease that could potentially be prevented by repurposing existing therapeutics.

Parkinson’s disease damages a specific class of neuron located in the midbrain. mNow researchers describe a process for converting non-neuronal cells into functioning neurons able to restore capacities undermined by Parkinson’s destruction of dopaminergic cells.

Heart problems associated with flu have been shown not to be caused by raging inflammation in the lungs, as has long been predicted, but by direct influenza infection of cardiac cells.