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 need. Eating disorders [...]
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 [...]
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 of many years. In the later stages of the disease, [...]
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 2021 there will [...]
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 enough time to [...]
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 will all likely [...]
Individuals are getting tired of being subscribed medications that do more harm than good and seeing doctor after doctor without any relief. Because of this, neurofeedback therapy has become a popular therapy method for conditions ranging from anxiety and depression to concussions and migraines. [...]
Student stress and anxiety are being called the mental health “tsunami” of our generation and unfortunately, our kids are being hit the hardest. So much so that 70% of teens have said that anxiety and depression are a major problem among their peers. There’s [...]
Chronic stress is becoming a national health crisis. The two most widespread stressors? Money and work - two things we can’t have without the other. But the more we stress, the more our performance suffers at work, and the less we can handle stressors. [...]
Today is PTSD Awareness Day and Brain Forest Centers is proud to help raise awareness for those we know and love struggling with this condition. For many years, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder was misunderstood by the medical community and thus the population. Today is a [...]
