Melbourne, 17 September 2026 (Conversation) How should we refer to people with mental ill health, disability, or neurodivergence? Terminology should be respectful, apt and avoid carrying stigma. It’s also important to listen to people’s preferences about how they refer to their condition.
Eating a daily skin-roasted peanuts may help older adults improve blood flow to their brains and boost memory, according to a new study. The new study suggests that a simple, everyday eating skin-roasted peanuts can supercharge blood flow in your brain —
Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Our brains rewire themselves completely five times over the course of our lifetimes, says a research team, whose
Milan, Dec 3 (The Conversation) In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, a spacecraft and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of an injured astronaut to remove a life-threatening blood clot from his brain. The Academy Award-winning
Abdominal obesity—the phenomenon commonly known as “beer belly”—is associated with significant cardiovascular risks, according to new data being presented at RSNA 2025 in Chicago. “Abdominal obesity, a high waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), is associated with more concerning cardiac remodeling patterns than high body
