You leave home early and find yourself in so much traffic that you end up being late for work or an important appointment. From that delay, the whole day gets complicated and things do not go as you thought. The normal reaction of these times? Stressing, as if that solved something. But in reality, stress […]
Eating a healthy diet and working out regularly can both help elevate your mood. If you want to feel more positive, you also need to focus on getting enough sleep. Sleep plays an essential role in your ability to function. If you toss and turn all night, unable to fall asleep, you may find yourself […]
Alzheimer’s disease Alzheimer’s is one form of dementia, leads to memory loss and disrupt intellectual abilities and cause serious hurdles in daily life. Most of the time Alzheimer’s disease is the main cause of dementia. In a broader sense, it is a neurological disorder occurs due to the death of brain cells that lead to […]
What is a stroke? A stroke or stroke is a failure of the blood circulation that affects a more or less important area of the brain. It occurs as a result of obstruction or rupture of a blood vessel and causes the death of nerve cells, which are deprived of oxygen and nutrients essential to their functions. In the majority of people, […]
Almost every adult and child in the US has heard about concussions at least once. Today, there is a deluge of information on concussions and brain trauma on almost every health and fitness website, sports website and news site. After the scores of NFL lawsuits on brain damage resulting from repeated sub-concussive blows to the […]
Debts are there in various forms, and even though it is not precise, the common definition for debt is as follows. Debt is primarily a financial sum which is borrowed by someone from another party. Debt can be on an individual to even the biggest corporate as a mode of making funds to purchase something […]
I got diagnosed with Bipolar II disorder back when I was a precocious thirteen-year-old. And having the disease’s label affixed to my name didn’t make me any more prepared to deal with my nervous highs and lows. Nor did any of the expensive mood-stabilizers and anticonvulsants help – no matter how much my therapist insisted […]
Chronic pain is a common health problem; however, in the US, it has turned into a disease, which drove to the rise of medicine painkiller and opioid addiction. Based on a CNN report by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a person passes every 19 minutes from unintentional overdoses from prescription painkillers. Actually, medicate overdoses are at present […]
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder. They are characterized both by obsessions , which are invasive thoughts that generate fears and anxieties , and compulsions , such as an irrepressible urge to perform repetitive gestures or mental acts such as counting or reciting a sentence internally. Obsessions often relate to themes such as: The fear of contamination (55%) Aggressive thoughts (50%) The need […]
Trisomy 21, also known as Down syndrome, is a disease caused by an abnormality in the chromosomes (the cellular structures that contain the genetic material of the body). People with trisomy 21 have three chromosomes 21 instead of a single pair. This imbalance in the functioning of the genome (all of the hereditary information present in human […]