Brain plasticity has to do with the ability of the brain to alter its structure and functions in response to external changes and stimuli and affects your cognition. Some of these can involve molecular changes such as new neural pathways or disconnected neural pathways. And others can entail other parts of the brain taking over [...]
A whole branch of psychology, the humanistic-existential theoretical set, is based around the idea that the person must truly first understand himself before being able to improve. The idea that a person should have a realistic, but relatively positive image of himself is also a part of that theoretical set. And that is for a [...]
New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD) is an acquired prion disease causally related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy that has occurred predominantly in young adults. All clinical cases studied have been methionine homozygotes at codon 129 of the prion protein gene (PRNP) with distinctive neuropathological findings and molecular strain type (PrP (Sc) type 4). Modeling studies in [...]
A good goal in life is to develop the ability to think accurately about things. This is harder than you might imagine but all effort is repaid ten-fold. The alternative to accurate thinking is inaccurate thinking and that leads to depression and anxiety, so let us be clear…the stakes are high. The most effective therapeutic [...]
To Be or Not to Be At All Oriental medicine is a safe and extremely old way of healing, with more than 2,000 years of development. It is different from the practice of medicine which is most common in the western world. The Western medical model considers the body as a physical thing and treats [...]
Depression is an insidious illness that can devastate a person’s life without the proper treatment. It is an illness that one does not recognize right away, but it can be felt for some time before it literally takes over one’s entire personality. Learning how to fight depression is the primary focus, and with a few [...]