Health

A team of scientists from the University of Cambridge have discovered a VR test that could help detect navigation problems - often one of the first parts of the brain affected by Alzheimer’s disease. The entorhinal cortex is both used to help navigation and often one of the first brain regions to show neurodegeneration in the disease. The scientists published...Read More

Brain injury awareness week takes place every year during the last full week of May
Every day in the UK, a person with an acquired brain injury is admitted to hospital every 90 seconds. Brain injuries can be caused by stroke, tumour, a fall or a road accident. 
Brain injury can cause life-changing problems and if you suspect that you have sustained...Read More

A team of scientists from McLean Hospital and Yale University have been examining the human brain through fMRI scans, to try to determine whether mental health illness may leave physical signs on the brain. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America and is available to read through the...Read More

As much of our lives move online, scientists have been warning about the dangers of a lifestyle that is too sedentary in nature. Walking has long been considered as an exercise that can ensure that people of all ages can keep in good health and lower risk factors for diseases such as cardiovascular disease. Scientists are debating how much and...Read More

Measles is a contagious virus, which causes a rash, fever and occasionally serious complications. It has been considered an eliminated disease in the UK by the World Health Organisation since 2016 due to the effective MMR vaccine. This means that it has been reduced to a low enough level to be confined for 3 years. There were still 966 confirmed...Read More

The skin is an organ which responds to touch and sends messages to the brain which can decipher the kind of touch experienced. Through haptic perception or touch, skin can detect between temperature, hot and cold, pressure, rough, smooth, itch and tickle, pain and vibrations among others. Touch is detected via receptors and nerve endings. 

Blind people are able to experience...Read More