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Veteran producers Tabrez Noorani and Amar Butala have signed on for the film adaptation of Ashok Rajamani’s memoir “The Day My Brain Exploded.” The adaptation chronicles Rajamani’s ...

Think your brain is too old to learn new tricks, let alone keep cognitive decline at bay? Think again. Research featured in the journal Cell Stem Cell in 2019 revealed that neurons continue to form in ...

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