Depression is a common mental health disorder that impacts daily functions and quality of life and can lead to a variety of physical, mental, and emotional problems that can disrupt your daily routine and ability to function at work and home. Depression approximately affects one in fifteen adults in any given year, and one in …
Encephalopathy is damage or disease that affects the brain, causing changes in its structure or in the way our brain functions and processes information. Encephalopathy can be caused by an infection, brain tumor, toxin exposure, poor nutrition, metabolic or mitochondrial dysfunction, lack of oxygen and blood flow to the brain, severe neglect in childhood, trauma, …
Many families have traditions during the holidays, but a universal theme is spending time with the people you love. Given the current pandemic, keeping family traditions alive may be exceptionally difficult this year. The isolation we have all experienced may be especially hard to handle during the holiday season. Loneliness can be detrimental to both …
The novel coronavirus has impacted everything in our day-to-day lives including, work, school, routines, and mental health. The effect of COVID-19 differs from person to person, however living through an unprecedented crisis like this with no concrete solution or definite end, our hypervigilance may rise to the point of compromising our physical wellbeing and emotional …
As the office manager at BiofeedbackWORKS, one of the most common phone calls I receive is from a parent who has a son or daughter with symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). They tell me how their child struggles to pay attention in school, has difficulty focusing on tasks, and behaves impulsively at home. Lately, I’ve …
