Throughout the winter and spring of 1981, British music circles reverberated with news of Pete Townshend's repeated transgressions. The lead guitarist and chief composer for the Who rock band was said to be drinking his breakfast and popping pills as if they were...
Vignette # 6 The patient is a nine year old female who is in the third grade and diagnosed as learning disabled. She reportedly experienced developmental delays physically and mentally. At age six her physical symptoms revolved around a lack of coordination. She could...
Ann N. Dapice, PhD (Lenape/Cherokee) has long been a proponent of the use of CES ( cranial electrical stimulation) for the treatment of addiction. The following is an excerpt from her presentation at the World Diabetes Congress in Melbourne, Australia recently. For...
What does the food you eat have to do with how your brain functions? Turns out an awful lot. While we’ve always known that what we eat affects our bodies and how we look, scientists are also learning more and more that what we eat takes a toll on our brains. Yes,...
Efforts, challenges, threats, or perceived threats or damage (physical and/or psychological) puts pressure on our biosystem. We thrive on various pressures to experience, adapt, survive, learn, and to live. Muscles can develop from putting pressure on them and they...
"Why do some people age more 'successfully' than others?" UC Berkeley researchers think sleep is one of the factors. As people get older, they sleep less and wake up more frequently. But does that mean older people just need less sleep? Not according to UC Berkeley...
Neurotransmitters are the brain chemicals that communicate information throughout our brain and body. They relay signals between nerve cells, called “neurons.” The brain uses neurotransmitters to tell your heart to beat, your lungs to breathe, and your stomach to...
The Body-Brain Continuum Our emotions, intellects, cognitive mind sets, perceptions, physiologies, chemistries, and much more all overlap and interact to make who we are. Simple examples can illustrate this complexity. A change in the environment can cause a hormonal...
There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that the aging brain undergoes neuroplastic changes to respond to functional declines and keep performance on the best level. During these changes, additional brain areas are recruited, such as the ipsilateral motor...
CES as a Viable Treatment for a Growing Problem With tens of thousands of young Americans returning from a decade plus of war.. Nothing that the Pharmaceutical Companies has done thus far is helping. The problem not only persists, it is growing !!! Position Paper on...