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Nutrition for kids: A complete guide

October 3, 2018 /// Patrick Agresz

Nutrition for kids: Healthy nutrition when being young is as important as paying attention to your diet when being an adult. Especially at a […]

Brain Health, Health, Kids, New Parents

Types of Attention: A Useful Guide

October 3, 2018 /// Amanda Micon

Attention is the direction of cognitive resources toward certain stimuli in the environment. As a cognitive process, it is essential for almost every endeavor […]

ADHD, Brain Health, Depression, Did you know..?, Health

Obesity: A complete guide to this worldwide growing issue

May 30, 2018 /// Anna Bohren

All over the world, we hear that obesity is a growing issue. Yet, there is a growing market for plus-sizes and campaigns that being […]

Did you know..?, Eating Disorders, Health

Intermittent Fasting: A complete guide

May 9, 2018 /// Patrick Agresz

Intermittent Fasting: “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.” Most likely you either heard it from your […]

Did you know..?, Health

Photographic Memory Real: A Snapshot of Photographic Memory

May 5, 2018 /// Radiyyah Hussein

Is having a photographic memory real? A photographic memory is usually used to describe when someone has the stunning ability to recall visual information […]

Brain Health, Health

Stress and Aging: Is Your Stress Aging You?

May 3, 2018 /// Puja Sethi

You wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and ask yourself “why do my eyes look so tired? Have I put […]

Brain Health, Did you know..?, Health, Stress

Looking at the Neuron; Its structures and their functions.

April 9, 2018 /// Rupinder Bajwa

Cell body. There are around 100 billion neurons in the brain! Neurons are really small, measuring in microns (thousands of a millimetre) The smallest […]

Brain Health, Did you know..?

Dysthymia: Persistent Depressive Disorder- What is it and Symptoms

March 27, 2018 /// Andrea García Cerdán

We’ve all been “there”, where we find ourselves more down than usual, we don’t feel like doing anything and have a constant feeling of […]

Brain Health, Depression

brain gym: keep your brain healthy and young

Brain Gym: 16 Activities That Will Help Your Brain Stay Younger

March 20, 2018 /// Andrea García Cerdán

Brain Gym for a healthy mind. A few years ago, we started to learn about the importance of training our brains. Today we know […]

Brain Health, Did you know..?, Health

Dysphasia: Difficulty with comprehension of spoken or written language

March 5, 2018 /// Anna Bohren

Imagine not being about to sing your favorite song, or not being able to write or say how you feel or what you are […]

Brain Health, Did you know..?, Health, Stress, Traumatic brain injury

Not Sure If You Should Take The Leap? Cognitive Benefits of Learning Foreign Languages

February 26, 2018 /// Rupinder Bajwa

We may not look back on our foreign language classes at school with much fondness.However, after reading about the following benefits of learning foreign […]

Alzheimer's Disease, Brain Health, Improving memory

Types of exercise: Different types of exercise and their benefits

February 19, 2018 /// Rupinder Bajwa

Types of exercise. Cue the groans! This blog post is all about the benefits of different types of exercise. Yes! You read that correctly! […]

Brain Health, Depression, Did you know..?, Health, Parkinson's, Stress

How to Improve Your Short-Term Memory: Study Tips to Remember Everything

February 11, 2018 /// Radiyyah Hussein

If you want to improve your short-term memory, look no further for some ways to help you out. Your short-term memory is what allows […]

Alzheimer's Disease, Brain Health, Dementia, Early Onset Alzheimer's, Early Onset Dementia, Health, Improving memory, Pathologies, Seniors

Functions of Dopamine: What is Dopamine and How Does It Affect you?

January 2, 2018 /// Radiyyah Hussein

The functions of dopamine are too many to count. Dopamine is an extremely famous neurotransmitter working in your brain. Whenever you want to learn […]

Brain Health, Health, Parkinson's, Pathologies, Seniors

Hypersomnia: What it is, and how it impacts your health

November 9, 2017 /// Jessica Taylor

We often hear about how people can’t seem to fall asleep, thus leading to people pulling all-nighters. In reality most are trying to go […]

Alzheimer's Disease, Brain Health, Did you know..?, Insomnia, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Parkinson's, Stress

Limbic System Functions: Limbo With Your Limbic System

August 9, 2017 /// Radiyyah Hussein

Your limbic system functions range from regulating your emotions to storing your memories to even helping you to learn new information. Your limbic system […]

Brain Health, Did you know..?, Health

Benefits of exercise on the brain: How does exercise help?

August 7, 2017 /// Jessica Prashad

You’ve probably heard before how the brain is “like a muscle” and just like our other muscles, we need to exercise it regularly. But […]

Brain Health, Did you know..?, Improving memory, Sports and Athletes

Human Brain Project: What is it and how it’s a research innovation

August 1, 2017 /// Valerie Sidelkivska

Assembly of The Human Brain Project has a goal to unravel what lies within the intricately woven network that still remains a secret. Humans […]

Brain Health, Did you know..?, Health

What Is Brain Freeze: Why we get it and ways to avoid it

June 19, 2017 /// Hanna Usdan

Summer is finally here. It’s time for ice-cream! YAYYYY!!!! Woops I got carried away and ate mine too quickly. Now I have a brain freeze! […]

Brain Health, Did you know..?, Health

Fight or Flight: All You Need to Know About This Response

May 16, 2017 /// Jacquelyn Brown

Fight or Flight. The sympathetic nervous system is one of two subdivisions of the autonomic nervous system, which is part of the peripheral nervous […]

Did you know..?, Health

The Effects of Video Games: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

April 3, 2017 /// Elsie Divinagracia, MPH

Effects of video games. Growing up, video games were an inescapable part of life and were a large part of development and socialization. Pokemon, which […]

Brain Health, Health, Improving memory

Mesothelioma and the Brain: How Chemotherapy Can Affect the Brain

March 29, 2017 /// CogniFit

Mesothelioma and the Brain Malignant mesothelioma cancer rarely spreads to the brain, but chemotherapy that is most commonly used to treat the disease often […]

Brain Health, Did you know..?

Alexithymia: Building Relationships Out of Nothing

March 22, 2017 /// Elsie Divinagracia, MPH

Alexithymia. Understanding and expressing emotions are essential parts of human interaction that unfortunately may be confusing for some people. Imagine not being able to […]

Brain Health, Depression, Traumatic brain injury

Concussion Symptoms- Causes and Treatments

March 7, 2017 /// Elsie Divinagracia, MPH

Concussion symptoms. Recently, concussions have become the focus of several discussions, research studies, news articles, and even movies. But when concussion symptoms can no […]

Brain Health, Health

Marijuana’s Effects on the Brain: A Scientific Look At Cannabis and the Brain

February 20, 2017 /// Jacquelyn Brown

Marijuana’s effects on the brain. Marijuana is becoming a more socially acceptable psychoactive substance, and coincidentally, a more abused substance. The other most popular […]

Brain Health, Did you know..?, Health