Seven hours of sleep each night is the ideal amount in middle to old age, research suggests. “For every hour that you moved away from seven hours, you got worse. It’s very clear that the processes that go on in our brain during sleep are very important for maintaining our physical and mental health” says […]
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Most people want their data to be shared between NHS organisations looking after them
UK health data survey finds broad public support for controlled NHS data sharing Researchers at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) and the University of Cambridge have published results from a national survey of public opinion on sharing health data to support clinical care and research. Health information is often shared between […]
Your brain expands and shrinks over time
Based on more than 120,000 brain scans, the charts are still preliminary. But researchers hope they could one day be used as a routine clinical tool by physicians. Richard Bethlehem and Jakob Seidlitz amassed more than 120,000 brain scans — the largest collection of its kind — to create the first comprehensive growth charts for […]
Five hopes for children’s mental health
Professor Tamsin Ford and Dr Ariadna Albajara Saenz, of the Child and Adolescent Resilience and Mental Health Group at The University of Cambridge’s Department of Psychiatry, share their hopes for improving children’s mental health. Government data published at the end of 2021 sadly show increasing mental health conditions among children and young people, particularly since […]