Photo credit: Priscilla Du Preez https://unsplash.com/photos/VzqEavUGnss At some point in life, we all experience anxiety. The racing heartbeat and shallow breaths prepare you to either face your fear head-on or run from it. We can't avoid anxiety since it's a natural response meant to keep [...]
Photo credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/abbPnv1xq1U?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink The brain is an amazing organ and tool. There's still so much that we don't know about how it functions or why it does the things it does. We also don't know the full extent to which injuries can impact the brain, [...]
Photo credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/qmnpqDwla_E?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink If you've ever experienced depression or have depressive episodes, you know that it can make your world seem dark and gray. This perception of your surroundings and reality feels incredibly real, and you just can shake the gloominess of your depression. People [...]
Photo credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/hluOJZjLVXc Millions of Americans live with a mental disorder every day, and each year the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) recognizes May as Mental Health Awareness Month. The theme surrounding the month changes, but the underlying support for those living with a [...]
Photo credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/DDyMG1LZaHo?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink February 23rd kicks off National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDAW), a time when people across the country shine a spotlight on eating disorders in order to educate, spread a message of hope and recovery, and provide lifesaving resources to those in [...]
Childhood Apraxia is a motor speech disorder that affects a child’s ability to speak. Speech therapists at Nationwide Children’s Hospital estimate as many as 10 children out of 1,000 are affected by this disorder. This neurological disorder affects the neural pathways involved in planning and [...]
Photo credit: <a href='https://www.freepik.com/photos/love'>Love photo created by rawpixel.com - www.freepik.com</a> Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative brain disorder that impairs motor function, causing shaking limbs, muscle stiffness, and even loss of body movement. It is a progressive disorder, meaning it gets worse over the course [...]
Photo credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/DfMMzzi3rmg?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink As technology has grown over the last decade, an entirely new medium for social interaction has emerged, allowing us to be more connected than ever before: social media. With platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, it is forecasted that by [...]
Photo credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/rXrMy7mXUEs?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink Sleep is important, it’s a simple fact. It has long been proven that memory and learning are connected to sleep. Some of us learned this the hard way as we struggled through high school and college, when there never seemed to be [...]
Photo credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/rXrMy7mXUEs?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditShareLink We’ve all experienced sadness before - after a breakup, when we get passed over for the big promotion, after the loss of a loved one. Sadness is a normal human emotion that we’ve all been forced to contend with, and we [...]
