Your Phone Is Rotting Your Brain--Give It A Break Now And Then
by Relmi Damiano on 2 July 2020
An old photo from decades ago has become a popular meme, and it shows people each with a newspaper up, almost as a sort of shield against talking to others. It is usually captioned with something like ‘technology is making us antisocial’.
Keeping Our Brains Healthy In A Toxic World
by Relmi Damiano on 25 June 2020
We can change our lifestyles to help improve our brain health. We can ensure we get enough sleep, spend more time outside, exercise and meditate, and eat healthy, nutritious foods. But what about the other dangers in the world, such as pathogens and diseases that can negatively impact …
How Meditation And Yoga Can Positively Impact Your Brain
by Relmi Damiano on 18 June 2020
How often do people take time to pause? The pace of our increasingly digital lives is often fast and furious, and decisions sometimes have to be made in a split second. Are we doing ourselves an injustice, however, by living life at such a break-neck pace? How can our brains possible …
The Profound Effects Of Nature On Our Brain Health
by Relmi Damiano on 4 June 2020
One resource that is often overlooked in the discussion regarding brain health is nature. Nature includes all the aspects of the physical world around us that are not human-made, such as plants, animals and landscapes. Research proves how beneficial spending time in nature is for us, …
Leadership In An Anxious World
by Relmi Damiano on 28 May 2020
People who suffer from anxiety often become masters at hiding it. Even though anxiety disorders are extremely common, we may be unaware that people in our lives, including family members, friends and coworkers, are living silently with anxiety. We cannot have a healthy body and mind i …
The Modern Health Crisis - Suicide
by Relmi Damiano on 21 May 2020
It seems almost everyone knows someone who has committed suicide. Even if the act seemingly came from nowhere, or as a spur of the moment decision, many people who commit suicide are affected by brain health disorders. Their often silent pleas for help may have gone unnoticed in healt …
The Dark and Lonely World of Depression
by Relmi Damiano on 14 May 2020
The roots of depression can take hold before a person even realises there is a problem. Some have described depression as a warm, fuzzy blanket laying over your body. At first, this warmth and comfort are welcome. But, before long, a person can feel smothered and trapped by the same b …
Using Neurofeedback Devices to Retrain Your Brain
by Relmi Damiano on 23 April 2020
Neurofeedback is basically a branch off of the broader term “biofeedback”. Biofeedback allows people to gain more control over bodily functions that are normally involuntary, and biofeedback can treat conditions such as incontinence, high blood pressure and migraines. By promoting rel …
Mental Health Treatment Options Using Brain Imaging
by Relmi Damiano on 9 April 2020
The childhood game, “pin the tail on the donkey” can resemble how doctors treat brain disorders as they try to determine the best diagnosis for a patient. Medical treatment often seems to involve some amount of guesswork. However, some clinicians have options to peer more deeply at a …
The Funding Crisis of Mental Health
by Relmi Damiano on 19 March 2020
The history of brain disorders stretches back thousands of years. People have attempted to diagnose and treat mental conditions in various manners many times in written records of the past. Unfortunately, many of these treatments, at best, did next to nothing, and at worst, resulting …
Is It Mental Health Or Brain Health We Should Be Talking About?
by Relmi Damiano on 12 March 2020
The state of mental health, and how we treat it, is alarming in much of the world. Stress, genetics, environment--all of these factors can affect mental health. However, the term “mental health” is in itself somewhat vague. Instead, we should talk about brain health & how having a …
The Science of Why You Should Get Off The Couch And Dance
by Relmi Damiano on 5 March 2020
A lot of us live sedentary lives, too connected to technology and obsessed with long working hours. We collect so much stress and unhealthy tension in our bodies and minds. When we are done with work for the day, many of us sit again in front of the TV, our phones and laptops watching …