Depression Diagnosis: Everything you need to know
Everyone experiences sadness in their life, whether it be short or long term. Upsetting and distressing life events or experiences can take a toll […]
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Cognitive Trauma: What you need to know
Cognitive trauma in relation to brain impairment is not something that is greatly known, due to its diminishing characteristics that create deep-rooted effects. However, […]
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Gross Motor Skills: Child Development
Remember how you sat up this morning in bed, stood up, walked to the shower, shampooed your hair by raising your arms to your […]
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Famous Dyslexics: From Walt Disney to Jamie Oliver
Did you know that Albert Einstein, Walt Disney, and Muhammad Ali were all famous dyslexics? Dyslexia can greatly affect someone’s life, but that doesn’t […]
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Learning to Drive: Guide To Mastering This Skill
Most of us had to learn how to drive- albeit at different ages under different circumstances such as snow and ice or extreme heat […]
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Nutrition for kids: A complete guide
Nutrition for kids: Healthy nutrition when being young is as important as paying attention to your diet when being an adult. Especially at a […]
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Effects of Cancer: Learn the consequences of this disease
Cancer isn’t easy and everyone who comes across it is affected greatly by it in one way or another. Almost everyone feels chronic fatigue, […]
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Concentration Problems: Symptoms, Causes, and Tips
Problems concentrating isn’t only something that happens to kids- many adults find themselves struggling to concentrate, and we’ve probably all had moments where, no […]
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White Matter: Everything you need to know
Everyone has probably heard of “white matter” and “gray matter” before when people talk about our brain. This article focuses on the light-colored matter, […]
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Cognitive processes: What are they? Can they improve?
Detecting changes around us, remembering a shopping list, deciding what apartment to rent, helping a friend with a problem… What do all these situations […]
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Treat Dyscalculia: Find out the different accommodations
If you are already seeking treatment it is probably because you or your child has been diagnosed with dyscalculia or math dyslexia. Dyscalculia is […]
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Physiological Effects Of Depression: A Complete Guide
Depression is a serious mental condition that many people suffer from. A lot of people cannot seem to grasp the extent to which depression […]
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Gray Matter: Complete guide to how we process information
We “normal, everyday people” have all probably heard the term “gray matter” when talking about the brain. We’ve also probably heard about “white matter”. […]
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Binge watching: Complete guide to its effects on the brain and body
Just about everyone and their pets have binge-watched something before. Netflix found that on average, 61% of users watch between 2-6 episodes in one […]
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Anhedonia: A complete guide to finding no pleasure
Feel like nothing is worth giving it a try? Like everything that you do, provides little to no satisfaction? We all have things that […]
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Anxiety: A complete guide to understanding this emotion
Sweaty palms, nerves, and panic attacks are what over 40 million Americans deal with. What is anxiety and how is it measured? What are […]
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Family Separation: Learn how it can affect everyone in the family
All over the world, children are separated from their parents daily. Some got to live with relatives, some live in foster care, and some […]
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Motion Sickness: An explanation to travelling nausea
As a kid, I never felt motion sick- ever. I would go on the craziest of carnival rides and not feel dizzy one bit. […]
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Abulia: A complete guide to beating a lack of motivation
Have you ever been so tired that you just didn’t want to do anything? Even things you usually enjoy doing? Have you ever lost […]
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Reactive Depression: A complete guide to this hidden activator
Depression has now become a topic that is talked about prominently in all forms of medium. This has led to a vast amount of […]
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Chronic Dehydration: A complete guide to the importance of water intake
It’s a hot summer day, we have been running around doing errands and have forgotten to drink water for several hours. Everyone has had […]
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Fear: Everything you need to know about being scared
In the famous words of Franklin Roosevelt, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!”, but what exactly is fear, what does […]
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The Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response – An internet trend with potential?
Have you ever listened to music and felt the chills? Usually this feeling is achieved when we listen to a song we really enjoy. […]
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Positive emotions: A guide to increase your quality of life
Positive emotions: The pursuit of your favorite activity, hearing a great speech that inspires us or simply laughing with your friends all cause an […]
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Looking at the Neuron; Its structures and their functions.
Cell body. There are around 100 billion neurons in the brain! Neurons are really small, measuring in microns (thousands of a millimetre) The smallest […]
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Neurodegenerative Diseases: Characteristics, Cures, and Prevention
Neurodegenerative diseases- What are they? Neurodegenerative diseases are characterized by damage to the nervous system, causing cognitive decline and changes in brain functions and how […]
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Dysthymia: Persistent Depressive Disorder- What is it and Symptoms
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 […]
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Too Much Coffee? How Caffeine Affects Your Brain
Almost everyone loves to have a nice, hot cup of coffee every once in a while. In fact, studies show that 85% of the […]
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Brain Gym: 16 Activities That Will Help Your Brain Stay Younger
Brain Gym for a healthy mind. A few years ago, we started to learn about the importance of training our brains. Today we know […]
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Brain based learning: What is it and how to apply it
What is brain based learning, and why it matters. Brain bases learning is a new perspective in teaching and learning that is based on using technology and knowledge of […]
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