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Increasing our level of physical fitness leads to a bigger release of brain-boosting proteins following one session of exercise, a new study led by a UCL researcher has found. The study, published in  Brain Research , took a group of inactive unfit participants through a 12-week training programme of cycling three times per week and made them fitter.

Six out of 10 older people in England view climate change as a serious risk, with only one in 17 (5.8%) dismissive of climate change concerns, according to a new study led by UCL researchers. The study, published in The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences , looked at survey responses from 6,572 people in England aged 50 and over who were asked to rate their agreement or disagreement with statements about climate change.

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Around seven in ten (68%) young adults who are part of generation Z report binge drinking in the past year, with almost a third (29%) regularly consuming six or more alcoholic drinks in one sitting, according to new UCL research. For the study, researchers from the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies analysed data from nearly 10,000 people born across the UK in 2000-02 who are taking part in the Millennium Cohort Study.

The world's longest continuously running birth cohort study, which follows thousands of participants born in the first week of March 1946 and is hosted by UCL, is celebrating its 80th birthday.

Dr Lucy Core (UCL UK Dementia Research Institute) describes in The Conversation how some patients with dementia can develop new and unexpected interests, suggesting that not all dementia symptoms are related to memory loss.

Black women in the UK are entering menopause severely under informed, under supported, and often dismissed by healthcare professionals, according to new research from the UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health. Published in the journal Post Reproductive Health , researchers say the study highlights urgent gaps in menopause education and calls for culturally competent care to address longstanding health inequalities.

More than two thirds of people in the UK are living with their parents at age 23, around three times higher than a generation of millennials when they were a similar age a decade ago.

Around one in five people in the UK and the US have the breathing disorder obstructive sleep apnoea, likely costing both economies billions in lost productivity every year, suggests a new paper led by a UCL researcher.

Highly detailed 3D scans of dense tropical rain forest plots are enabling precise estimates of tree structure, volume and stored carbon, as part of a first-of-its-kind pilot initiative, led by UCL researchers.

Writing for The Conversation, Professor Robert Hazell (UCL Political Science) outlines why the legal case against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is so unusual and complex, and how it could take several years to reach the courtroom.

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Ria Kodosaki and Dr Amanda Heslegrave (both UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) analyse how differences in immune function and declining oestrogen levels may help explain why women are diagnosed with dementia more than men.