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This Year, Try Spring Cleaning Your Brain
Five ways to soothe a mind fixated on anxiety, stress, and streams of information. Coronavirus cases are receding across the United States, and face masks are coming off. Little green shoots are finally poking through the earth, signaling the...
Instead of Relying on Diets, Learn to Train Your Brain
Mindful awareness techniques can be used to reshape eating habits and quell cravings. Here’s a New Year’s resolution you can keep: Stop dieting and start savoring your food instead. That may seem like surprising advice, but there’s mounting...
Take Comfort: These Foods Can Improve Your Mood
Increasingly, researchers are finding stronger links between diet and brain health. It’s time to start feeding your brain. For years research on healthy eating has focused primarily on physical health and the link between diet, weight, and chronic...
Adaptability: Navigating an Ever Changing World
John Lennon is quoted as saying: ‘Life is what happens when you are making other plans.’ Indeed, Life continues to throw curve-balls at us: from the Covid, tragedy, familial and cultural tensions, financial uncertainty – as well as the cumulative...
Medications Aren’t The Only Option
As the Opioid Crisis shook the public’s view of painkillers and pharmaceutical companies came under fire for their marketing practices, many patients looked for alternatives. One of the leading contenders; talk therapy. Psychologists, therapists,...
Gentle Exercise will Help You Remember
Forgetful? A little gentle exercise every day can help improve your memory. Light workouts create new connections in the areas of the brain, such as the hippocampus, that are responsible for memory. Exercise, such as walking, yoga, and tai chi, may...
Most ADHD Children have the Problem as Adults
ADHD (attention deficit hyperactive disorder) is often thought of as a problem of childhood – but 90 percent go on to suffer symptoms as adults, such as speaking impulsively, or not being able to make decisions. It’s important for people to...
Have chronic pain? What you need to know about your pain management options
Everyone deals with pain at one time or another. Perhaps you’ve temporarily suffered from a cluster or tension headache, or a muscle spasm. Pain that lasts for two months or longer can be called Chronic Pain. Chronic Pain, often stress-related, can...
Brain ripples drop sugar levels in rats
Ripples of nerve cell activity that lock in memories may have an unexpected job outside of the brain: dropping blood sugar levels in the body. Soon after a burst of ripples in a rat’s hippocampus, a brain structure that plays a key role in memory,...
What is LENS? How can it work for me?
LENS – or Low Energy Neurofeedback System– is an advanced form of brain technology or EEG biofeedback for adults and children – so-called, because it uses a tiny signal, hundreds of times smaller than your cell phone, that your brain is attracted...