Simple Changes for Optimal Focus By making simple changes to your daily diet and habits, you can become more productive. To help improve your brain power, here are six ways to have better mental focus at work: Supercharge your diet Certain foods can enhance your brainpower. For example, pistachios support better blood flow, bringing oxygenContinue reading “Simple Changes for Optimal Focus in the brain”
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Study Links Brain Structure, Anxiety and Negative Bias in Healthy Adults
Summary: According to researchers, healthy people with a smaller inferior frontal cortex are more prone to anxiety and tend to view neutral events negatively. Source: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Healthy college students who have a relatively small inferior frontal cortex – a brain region behind the temples that helps regulate thoughts and emotionsContinue reading “Study Links Brain Structure, Anxiety and Negative Bias in Healthy Adults”
Common Probiotics Can Reduce Stress Levels, Lessen Anxiety
Summary: According to a new study, a common probiotic can decrease stress related behavior and anxiety. Source: University of Missouri. Probiotics, or beneficial live bacteria that are introduced into the body, have become increasingly popular as a way to improve health and well-being. Previous studies have shown a direct correlation between gut microbes and theContinue reading “Common Probiotics Can Reduce Stress Levels, Lessen Anxiety”
This Is Your Brain on Legal Cannabis
Summary: While marijuana can initially help with symptoms of anxiety and depression, it can be detrimental to mental health when used long term, a new study reports. Source: Colorado State University. For those suffering depression or anxiety, using cannabis for relief may not be the long-term answer. That’s according to new research from a teamContinue reading “This Is Your Brain on Legal Cannabis”
Anxiety by Dr Jenn Bahr
Anxiety Anxiety can affect anyone in vastly varying ways. The term “anxiety” is a general one which is used to cover a multitude of conditions. The symptoms of anxiety can be very general or acute. Speaking with your doctor about your specific symptoms is vitally important in the treatment of anxiety as different symptomsContinue reading “Anxiety by Dr Jenn Bahr”
Bacterial Immunization Prevents PTSD-Like Symptoms in Mice
Summary: According to a new study, mice injected with a specific bacterium became more resilient to stress, showing less anxiety and fear in stressful situations. Source: UCL. Injecting mice with a UCL-discovered bacterium can reduce stress and inflammation, preventing them from developing PTSD-like conditions, finds a new international study led by the University of ColoradoContinue reading “Bacterial Immunization Prevents PTSD-Like Symptoms in Mice”
Depression among older adults due to social strains
Social relationships, loneliness, and mental health among older men and women in Ireland: A prospective community-based study Data is lacking on the association of interpersonal stressors and social isolation with mental disorders and the mediating role of loneliness. Thus, we examined this association prospectively using community-based data. Methods Data on 6105 adults aged ≥50 yearsContinue reading “Depression among older adults due to social strains”
Diet for the elderly
A personalised nutrition approach Micronutrients such as zinc, copper and selenium play a pivotal role in a range of physiological functions and maintain immune and antioxidant systems (Eugenio Mocchegiani et al.). The complex interactions between micronutrients and genes could help in understanding how best to use nutrients as supplements in clinical practice. Further genetic andContinue reading “Diet for the elderly”
Dopamine pathways and Parkinson
Dopamine pathways is to Parkinson and Serotonin pathway is to Alzheimer’s Dopaminergic pathways, sometimes called dopaminergic projections, are neural pathways in the brain that transmit the neurotransmitter dopamine from one region of the brain to another.[1][2] The neurons of the dopaminergic pathways have axons that run the entire length of the pathway. The neurons’ somataContinue reading “Dopamine pathways and Parkinson”
Brain food , sources of GABA and for brain cell growth
Doctors often prescribe SSRIs to help put the brakes on the brain for those who are overly amped up. Essentially, serotonin and GABA are the brakes and Acetylcholine and Dopamine are the gas. When it comes to anxiety issues, SSRIs are analogous to using the emergency brake on your car to slow down the vehicleContinue reading “Brain food , sources of GABA and for brain cell growth”