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A quick guide to drugs, the brain and brain chemistry

Discover some of the major chemicals that govern activity in our brains, how they work, and why certain drugs have the effects they do.

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The man who remembers everything

Tilney1 can remember his life in minute detail, but can’t control the incessant intrusion of thoughts and images from the past. As cuts to mental health services isolate him more and more, a crisis approaches.

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Between two summers

As Michael Malay tends his allotment, absorbing all the sensations of his surroundings, he finds the repetition of work calms the mind.

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姜、蒜、葱 Ginger, garlic and spring onions

Nina Mingya Powles felt adrift in the UK, living thousands of miles from home. But nurturing familiar tastes and smells in her tiny balcony garden helped her roots begin to grow.

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  • A.E.J. Downing; member of staff of the Wellcome Museum.
  • Easy ways to cut down on fat / J. Sainsbury's plc.
  • A South Down ram. Etching by Neele after J. Lambert.
  • Easy ways to cut down on fat / J. Sainsbury's plc.
  • Easy ways to cut down on fat / J. Sainsbury's plc.
  • Easy ways to cut down on fat / J. Sainsbury's plc.
  • Easy ways to cut down on fat / J. Sainsbury's plc.
  • A South Down ewe. Etching by Neele after J. Lambert.
  • Card of S. J. van Butchell pasted down in Wellcome copy.
  • A girl with Down's syndrome, sitting, wearing striped socks. Photograph by J.A.Baldry.
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