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Does checking your phone reshape your brain?

Does checking your phone reshape your brain?

Teenagers spend on average over 4 hours per day on a mobile device. A lot has already been written on the perils of too much screen time – that it’s sapping our willpower and ruining our concentration. Could mobile devices be messing with the brain’s development?  In...
Apathy as a predictor of dementia or its severity

Apathy as a predictor of dementia or its severity

Dementia has overtaken coronary heart disease as the leading cause of premature death in older Australians.  Mild cognitive impairment, or MCI is a condition which affects cognitive abilities like memory and language. Those with MCI may have more difficulty...
Intermittent fasting and inflammation: The effect on healthy ageing

Intermittent fasting and inflammation: The effect on healthy ageing

In recent years intermittent fasting (IF) has grown in popularity. It’s an eating plan which alternates between states of fasting and windows of eating. Intermittent fasters repeat this pattern, depending on the type of program they’re doing, every day (16:8) or twice...
Medicare reform: How to stay ahead of the game

Medicare reform: How to stay ahead of the game

General Practice is in a difficult place and the biggest changes in decades are about to occur.  All practices need to consider if you are doing everything you can to maxmise value for your practice and patients. In a recent General Practice in a Rapidly Changing...