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Adolescents who sleep longer perform better at cognitive tasks

22 April 2025

Adolescents who sleep for longer – and from an earlier bedtime – than their peers tend to have improved brain function and perform better at cognitive tests, researchers from the UK and China have shown.

Loneliness linked to higher risk of heart disease and stroke and susceptibility to infection

03 January 2025

Interactions with friends and family may keep us healthy because they boost our immune system and reduce our risk of diseases such as heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, new research suggests.

Very sick 5 year old little boy fighting measles infection, boy is laying in bed under the blanket with an agonizing expression, boy is covered with rash caused by virus.

Birth by C-section more than doubles odds of measles vaccine failure

13 May 2024

Researchers say it is vital that children born by caesarean section receive two doses of the measles vaccine for robust protection against the disease.

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Healthy lifestyle can help prevent depression – and new research may explain why

11 September 2023

A healthy lifestyle that involves moderate alcohol consumption, a healthy diet, regular physical activity, healthy sleep and frequent social connection, while avoiding smoking and too much sedentary behaviour, reduces the risk of depression, new research has found.

Reduced grey matter in frontal lobes linked to teenage smoking and nicotine addiction

15 August 2023

Findings may demonstrate a brain and behavioural basis for how nicotine addiction is initiated and then takes hold in early life, say scientists.

Problems with ‘pruning’ brain connections linked to adolescent mental health disorders

24 April 2023

Problems with the brain’s ability to ‘prune’ itself of unnecessary connections may underlie a wide range of mental health disorders that begin during adolescence, according to research published today.

Elderly woman in the middle stages of Alzheimer

Social isolation may impact brain volume in regions linked to higher risk of dementia

08 June 2022

Social isolation is linked to lower brain volume in areas related to cognition and a higher risk of dementia, according to research published today in Neurology. The study found that social isolation was linked to a 26% increased risk of dementia, separately from risk factors like depression and loneliness.

Seven hours of sleep is optimal in middle and old age, say researchers

28 April 2022

Seven hours is the ideal amount of sleep for people in their middle age and upwards, with too little or too much sleep associated with poorer cognitive performance and mental health, say researchers from the University of Cambridge and Fudan University.

Articles about 'Fudan University'

Adolescents who sleep longer perform better at cognitive tasks

Loneliness linked to higher risk of heart disease and stroke and susceptibility to infection

Birth by C-section more than doubles odds of measles vaccine failure

Healthy lifestyle can help prevent depression – and new research may explain why

Reduced grey matter in frontal lobes linked to teenage smoking and nicotine addiction

Problems with ‘pruning’ brain connections linked to adolescent mental health disorders

Social isolation may impact brain volume in regions linked to higher risk of dementia

Seven hours of sleep is optimal in middle and old age, say researchers

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