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Brain Hacks
How do we keep our brains healthy? Science journalist Melissa Hogenboom sets out to understand more about the brain's capacity to respond to change, learn and heal.
How do we keep our brains healthy? And is there anything we can do to help strengthen crucial connections and keep our minds younger in the process? Science journalist Melissa Hogenboom sets out to understand more about the brain's capacity to respond to change, helping us to learn and to heal. She looks at the most cutting-edge scientific research and has her own brain scanned and analysed, with intriguing results.
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