Does Socializing Stress You Out? How To Overcome Social Anxiety
Let’s set the scene: It’s peak lunch time and you’re in a hurry before your next class. You usually eat with a few friends, but […]
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Dyslexia: How To Help At Home
What is dyslexia? Dyslexia is a language disorder characterized by a deterioration in the ability to recognize words, reading slowly, and problems with reading comprehension. Most […]
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10 Games To Improve Psychometric Abilities In Children
Psychometric abilities are a set of skills that we are continuously developing and improving from birth. They imply the use of other necessary skills in […]
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New Treatment for Pitt-Hopkins Autism
Researchers as the Lieber Institute for Brain Development (LIBD) have, for the first time, identified a possible treatment for Pitt-Hopkins autism. Pitt-Hopkins syndrome (PHS) is […]
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Music Therapy Improves Quality Of Life For Parkinson’s Patients
A thesis defended by Maria Luisa Sanchez at the Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (in Spain) shows that music therapy improves the quality of […]
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MS Risk Factors and Vitamin D
MS is the most common neurological problems that affects the central nervous system. It usually appears in people about 20 or 30 years-old and is […]
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Tired of Lies? Why Kids With ADHD Lie So Much
We’ve all told a lie at some point when we were kids, but kids with ADHD tend to lie more frequently. Children with this learning […]
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Insomnia during the first trimester of pregnancy: Causes and Remedies
Insomnia is quite frequent in pregnant women. Many physiological changes happen in the first trimester related to body temperature and levels of melatonin, prolactin, and […]
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What is Transient Global Amnesia: A Sudden Loss of Memory
In order to explain Transient Global Amnesia (TGA), I’ll tell you about my personal story*. A few months ago, my mom had a sudden and […]
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Under pressure? Relaxing music can help relieve stress
The parties that those college kids have, annoying people who play music on their phones without headphones, reality TV stars who decide that they want […]
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Dyscalculia test online: Find out if your child has math difficulties
What is dyscalculia? Dyscalculia consists of a neurological alteration that causes profound difficulties when identifying numbers and counting. Sometimes this disorder is known as “math […]
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How to help a loved one live with Parkinson’s
Parkinson’s disease is a neurological deterioration that affects motor skills, but this illness doesn’t stop there. It also causes huge emotional changes that loved ones […]
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Playing Video Games For Multiple Sclerosis Treatment?
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is chronic neurodegenerative disease that attacks the central nervous system and is characterized by the appearance of demineralizing injuries (of the protecting […]
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Take Care Of Yourself to Sleep Well: Foods To Help You Prevent Insomnia
If you have insomnia or you wake up eagerly in the middle of the night, you might be tempted to take sleeping pills. This is […]
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Painting Is Beneficial For Autistic Children: Iris Grace, The Little Genius
Iris Grace is a 6 year-old autistic girl who is fascinated by three things: her cat, Thula, playing the violin, and painting. There’s nothing more […]
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Symptoms of Asperger’s Syndrome: How to Recognize It
While in recent years the amount of Asperger’s Syndrome diagnosis has increased, many people still don’t know what it is. If anything, we know that […]
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How to Overcome Depression During Pregnancy: Why do I Feel Guilty?
We recently talked about postpartum depression, and now we’re going to look at how to overcome depression during pregnancy. Being pregnant and bringing a new […]
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How to Reduce the Symptoms of Schizophrenia: Living a Normal Life is Possible
If you have been diagnosed with schizophrenia or you know someone who has, you might feel overwhelmed by the news. If you’re feeling depressed by […]
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Do Women Need More Sleep Than Men?
Women always talk about their “beauty sleep”, but a study conducted at the Duke University Medical Center and published in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity […]
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How to Combat Insomnia in Autistic Children: Tips for Insomnia
How can you combat insomnia in autistic children? It may be difficult to improve sleep quality in autistic children, because neurochemical factors, stress, anxiety, and […]
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How to Take Care of Someone with Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that slowly damages the cognitive skills of the person suffering. With time, the disease incapacitates the patient to the […]
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How to Help Your Dyslexic Child With Reading and Writing
Dyslexic children tend to have many academic difficulties, but this has nothing to do with their intelligence or the effort that they put into their […]
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How Does Juvenile Parkinson’s Affect Your Child?
Juvenile Parkinson’s affect your child. We always think of Parkinson’s as an illness that affects the older population, but we’ve seen that juvenile Parkinson’s also […]
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Keep Your Child Safe: How to Calm an Autistic Child
It’s normal for someone with serious autism to have tantrums or nervous breakdowns when they are annoyed or stressed out. We have to be prepared […]
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