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Opinion: Fair play? How ‘smart drugs’ are making workplaces more competitive

06 Jul 2016

Barbara Sahakian (Department of Psychiatry) discusses 'smart drugs' and other ways to boost our cognitive abilities.

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Speakers of two dialects may share cognitive advantage with speakers of two languages

27 Apr 2016

The ability of children to speak any two dialects – two closely related varieties of the same language – may confer the same cognitive advantages as...

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‘Brain training’ app may improve memory and daily functioning in schizophrenia

03 Aug 2015

A ‘brain training’ iPad game developed and tested by researchers at the University of Cambridge may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia...

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