Therapeutic hypothermia could offer guidance as we recover from the festive period, says Daniel GlaserFeeling a little bruised after the excesses of New Year and the festive period? Since the 1940s, many studies have shown the benefits of therapeutic hypothermia, or cooling the brain. In ghoulish trauma medicine terminology, you’re not dead till you’re warm and dead. Days are already getting longer, albeit slowly, and soon it’ll be time to emerge from our mental burrows. Dr Daniel Glaser is director of Science Gallery at King’s College London

Source: The Guardian January 07, 2018 09:22 UTC