While certain heavy metals are essential for the proper functioning of our bodies, others can be detrimental to our health when present — even in trace amounts, particularly…
Your brain is constantly reorganizing itself, both physically and functionally, throughout your life due to your environment, behavior, thinking, and emotions, a concept known as neuroplasticity. While an…
Headaches are generally classified according to how and why the body is generating the pain. Your pain might be anxiety-related or caused by substances that you’ve ingested or been…
“Time is a great healer” – how many times have you heard this reassuring phrase meaning that any painful and difficult situation won’t seem as bad as time…
How you feel, think, and move, what you see and hear, literally every single thing originates in or is processed and assigned meaning by that three-pound mass in…
This upcoming week is Mental Health Awareness Week. In its honor and in an effort to keep conversations flowing about mental health, public and private, I want to…
Until a few decades ago, science told us that our brains were capable of growth and change in childhood and that it was pretty much downhill from there. Now…
Brain injuries are more common than you probably think. Because of underreporting and co-occurring injuries, the number of brain injuries is difficult to pinpoint exactly. However, even then,…
You are the expert on you. No one else has inhabited your brain and body. Nobody knows the details of your life nor the experiences you’ve been through.…
With depression and Alzheimer’s escalating to epidemic proportions, brain health is understandably a top concern for most everyone these days. From medications to meditation, people are seeking ways…
Over the years, depression crept up on me, little by little. It was as if I was lugging around a sack of rocks, and all too often, life…