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Albert Einstein began playing the violin when he was 6-years-old. By the age of 13, he was playing Mozart's sonatas. Einstein once said, "Life without playing music is inconceivable to me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music ... I get most joy in life out of music."                                             Musical training has the potential to change brain structure and function when practiced for a long period of time. The anatomical differences have been found between a musician’s and a non-musician’s auditory and motor cortices and neural connectivity linking these areas. Practicing musical instrument can lead to structural changes after only 15 months in early childhood. These changes correlate with improvements in certain motor and auditory nerve cells and structural ...

Importance of Oxygen for Brain Health. We all know that oxygen is one of the most essential thing that human brain needs for better and proper functioning. We are knowing many ways to keep our bodies to grow and keep healthy. We know that we all need a good balance diet and regular exercise for our body. What about our brain ? What does it need to be able to grow, to heal and to learn in the best way it can ? What are the elements of balance that will affect brain and recovery ? A good diet is a great start. Our brain has a lot of structures just like other body parts, and it needs to be fed well. But these are other things that are less talked about. If we are going to intentionally care for our brain we need to know about body balance in ways that we don't often hear about. Specifically, we need to do as many things as possible to get the best circulation of blood to the brain that we can. This is so important because our blood is the carrier of oxygen to our brain and o...

Leg exercise is important and significant for the brain and it boosts the health of the nervous system . Neurological health is an interactive relationship with our muscles and our world. Our neurological health depends as much as on signals or vibrations sent by the body's leg muscles to the brain as it does on directives from the brain to the muscles. The new study fundamentally alters brain and nervous system, medicine and its giving doctors new clues as to why patients with motor neuron disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal muscular atrophy and other neurological diseases after rapidly decline in their physical movements becomes limited. The study supports the idea that people who are inactive and unable to do load bearing exercises such as patients who are bedridden or even astronauts who have gone on extended travels, they do not only lose muscle mass, even their body chemistry is deeply altered at the cellular level and their nervous system is adversely impacted. T...

               Generalized Anxiety Disorder Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by persistent and excessive worry about number of different things or even about everyday life events. People with GAD may anticipate disaster and may be overly concerned about money, health, work or any other issue.    what are symptoms:     1. excessive and ongoing worry and tension    2. restlessness    3. muscle tension    4. headaches    5. difficulty concentrating    6. trembling GAD affects 6.8 million or 3.1 percent of population in any given year. Individuals with GAD find it difficult to control their worry . they may expect the worse even when there is no reason for concern. GAD is diagnosed when a person find it difficult to control worry for more than 6 months and have at least 2 to 3 symptoms. This order come...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - Symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatment. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder of PTSD is a mental health disorder that is triggered by a frightening or scary event or incident either by experience or witnessing it. Symptoms may be taken as flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about that incident. Most people who witnessed traumatic events may have temporary difficulty in adjusting for the situation and coping it, but as the time gets passed and good self care, they usually get better. If the symptoms gets worse, they will last for weeks, months or even years, and interfering into the day to day life, then you may have caught with PTSD. * Getting effective treatment after PTSD symptoms develop can be critical to reduce symptoms and improve functions. Symptoms of PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms may start within one month of a traumatic or painful incident, but sometimes symptoms may not ap...

SCHIZOPHRENIA- Symptoms, causes, treatment, types and diagnosis. Schizophrenia is a mental health problem that usually occurs in late adolescence or early adulthood. It can be characterized by delusions, hallucinations and other cognitive difficulties. Schizophrenia can often be a lifelong condition. Fast facts on Schizophrenia are : 1) Schizophrenia affects an estimated 1% of the population. 2) Symptoms of schizophrenia effects include, delusions, hallucinations and disorganized thoughts. 3) Diagnosing schizophrenia comes only after other disease have been ruled out. What is Schizophrenia ? Schizophrenia is a mental health disorder which most commonly appears between the ages of 16 and 30 years, and males tend to show symptoms at a slightly younger age than females. In many cases, this disorder strikes so slowly that the individual does not even know that they have had suffered it for many years. However, in some cases, it can develops suddenly and strikes qu...

Symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatment of Bipolar Disorder.   Bipolar disorder which is formerly known as Manic Depression, is a mental health condition in which someone's mood swings in an extreme way that emotional highs (mania or hypo-mania) and lows are counted as depression. When someone becomes depressed, he or she may feel sad, dejected or hopeless and lose interest or pleasure in most activities. When the mood shifts to mania or hypo-mania (less extreme than mania) that person may feel euphoric, full of energy or unusually irritable. These mood swings can reflect into sleeping pattern, energy activity, behaviour, judgment and the thinking and reasoning abilities. Events or cycles of mood swings may occur rarely or multiple times in a week, month or year. While most of the people will experience some emotional symptoms between those events, some may not experience any at all. Although bipolar disorder is a life long situation, in which an individual can manage mood ...