Pain involves nerve endings in the body and nerve pathways from the brain to the body. Pain becomes chronic when it lasts for over 6 months. Our thoughts, personalities, social environment and learned behaviors can all contribute to how severe the pain is experienced.
In Cognitive Behavior Therapy (C.B.T.), clear steps are intended to help build hope, solve problems and make a plan to avoid relapses.
After a week of devastating news about suicide, there has been much discussion of the need for people who may be thinking of ending their lives to reach out for help. But some people who are suffering may be skeptical that therapy could make a difference.
How Can Birds help with Dyslexia Research? Currently, there is a study being conducted through the University of Virginia’s Brain Institute to develop a model for dyslexia and other language disorders through birds. Specifically, the Zebra Finch. Unlike some other animals, Zebra Finches learn how to communicate through
It is common for children with ADHD to have difficulties in managing their emotions and organizing themselves. For example, they tend to get into a trouble at school and elsewhere because of their inability to inhibit behavior or think through their actions before reacting.
What is Biofeedback? Biofeedback is a treatment that helps patients learn to control bodily processes such as muscle tension, blood pressure, or heart rate. It has been used to treat problems like high blood pressure, muscle tension and anxiety. The way a Biofeedback session works
It is important to start out by explaining that Dementia is an umbrella term to define loss of memory and other mental abilities that interfere with daily life caused by physical changes in the brain. So Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s for instance are both examples of possible causes of dementia.
The term “dialectical” means the use of acting through opposing forces. The primary dialectic within DBT is between the seemingly opposite strategies of acceptance and change.
Parents are facing a phenomenon they never experienced before; children having constant access to screens. Whether it is a computer screen or a phone screen or a television screen— most children from a young age have access to it.
Diagnosis of Adult-Onset ADHD ADHD used to be understood as an illness exclusively experienced in childhood. However, Adult-Onset ADHD is raising questions about the brain disorder. New data suggests that some people experience ADHD in adulthood without having been diagnosed with ADHD in childhood.
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain found in people with a history of repeated brain trauma. The constant brain trauma triggers progressive degeneration of the brain tissue, including the build-up of an abnormal protein called tau. These changes in the brain can begin months, years, or even decades after the last brain trauma.
