The Best Brain Possible

8 min read 2021-12-27 08:12:37

10 Easy Things You Can Do to Have a Healthier and Happier New Year

There’s no doubt about it. Our modern lifestyles are not good for our brains. With restaurant food delivered to your door 24/7, never-ending dings

4 min read 2021-12-13 01:08:14

A new year brings both hopes and anxieties. We want things to be better for ourselves and the people we love, but worry that they won’t be, and

1 min read 2021-11-29 06:30:54

Science has confirmed that the vagus nerve is important to your mental and physical health. Stimulating it has many health benefits. Here’s how and

1 min read 2021-11-14 23:07:06

Dopamine is a feel-good neurotransmitter produced in your brain and gut. The nervous system utilizes it to deliver signals between nerve cells in

1 min read 2021-11-02 00:52:16

There’s no denying it. It’s obvious and science confirms that we are already well into the process of the Earth’s changing climate. Just look

1 min read 2021-10-11 04:54:34

It’s very disheartening to learn that trauma can damage your brain in lasting ways. It gets worse. Trauma can also change your genes so that the

1 min read 2021-09-26 22:30:50

Beth came to therapy because she could not stop her mind from worrying. She’d think about the same things over and over, getting stuck in a loop

1 min read 2021-09-12 23:08:08

More than one-third of American adults view social media as harmful to their mental health, according to a new survey from the American Psychiatric

1 min read 2021-08-29 23:31:18

“You’re not a robot.” I tell myself this often, as an exasperated reminder that I can’t expect myself to perform “perfectly,” and that

1 min read 2021-08-16 09:05:28

I think of myself as an extremely unprejudiced, unbiased person. I take pride in the fact that I accept and interact with everyone equally. Or do

1 min read 2021-08-02 00:36:47

Parents often receive books at pediatric checkups via programs like Reach Out and Read and hear from a variety of health professionals and

1 min read 2021-07-19 02:19:11

As if you didn’t have enough to worry about. Now, science finds that negative thinking may actually cause your brain to decline faster and has been

1 min read 2021-07-06 02:17:34

You can think of your attention as your brain’s steering wheel. Wherever your attention goes, the rest of your brain follows. It is the gate

1 min read 2021-06-27 23:15:15

As with many other physicians, recommending physical activity to patients was just a doctor chore for me – until a few years ago. That was because

1 min read 2021-06-14 09:04:33

Neuroplasticity, the ability of your brain to change both physical form and function in response to its environment, has become a buzzword promising