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Cooking Once a Week Could Protect Your Brain

Wellness advice often focuses on what we put on our plates – the ingredients – but new research suggests we’ve been overlooking the role of how those ingredients came to land on our plates in the first place.

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The Healing Power of Music: Why music reaches deeper than words

Music doesn’t just touch one part of the brain – it lights up billions of neurons across many connected regions. This allows a few notes to access memory circuits that contain an entire package: tune, words, and the experiences tied to them.

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