Keep your brain strong and build your cognitive reserve with top advice from Dr Tim Beanland, head of knowledge and learning at Alzheimer’s Society

About 55 million people worldwide have received a diagnosis of dementia, a condition that will affect about 1.4 million people in the UK alone by 2040. The biggest risk factor? Being over sixty-five.

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The secret to keeping your brain active and energised could be on the tip of your tongue... With new research highlighting how learning languages can reduce brain ageing, we’re sharing effective and fun ways you can embrace lifelong learning, and cherish connecting with other cultures

Steve Ramirez knows how devastating painful memories can be. In 2015, when he was a doctoral candidate working on manipulating memories in mice, his close friend and lab partner, Xu Liu, died unexpect

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