Link between changes in the brain and obesity

Well a news- if you eat too much of the fast food, then one of your body part will shrink but the news is not good as you think its bad because that body part is brain. A new study has suggested, that people whose diet is high on trans fats that is the artery damaging fats are more likely to have the brain shrinkage which is associated with the Alzheimer’s disease. The study has also shown that people whose diet is rich in Vitamin C, Vitamin B complex and the Vitamin D, appears to have large brains then people who are low in these nutrients in their diet. The Omega 3 fatty acid are very beneficial, they seem to benefit small blood vessels of brain, and affects the thinking ability related to those vessels. One of the leading investigator Dr Gene Bowman has suggested this. People  [...]

Research team that was led by Indian origin neuroscientist have found gene which is known to activate or rather turn on when any form of information is stored in brain, i.e. memories being stored. This discovery is believed can help in pinpointing exact location of the memory in brain. When we observe something like a new event, then our brain encodes memory by altering connections existing between the neurons. This need turns on many gene in the regarding neurons. In the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), neuroscientists have been able to identify a gene, which is known as the Npas4, that is active in brain’s hippocampus- that brain structure which is critical in forming of the long term memories. This research, which has been described in journal science, could be the  [...]

Brain is one of the most complex structures and it’s definitely one of the mind blogging task to understand the working of the brain. When it comes to brain, every lay man knows that the brain is that organ of human beings which makes humans as human. Because of the brain human has abilities like art, dance, language, capability of moral judgments and has rational sense of thoughts. Brain is the administration department of the body which controls person’s personality, his memories, senses and responsible for his movements. The brain is like jelly, mass which is made up of fats and proteins, weighs approx. of three pounds or some 1.4 kilograms. Brain is one of the body’s bigger organs which is consist some hundred billion nerve cells which basically coordinates our physical actions,  [...]

Brain is the administration house of our body system. And brain can be affected through many diseases. The main categories under which the diseases to the brains can be categorized are: Infection Trauma Seizures Auto immune conditions Vascular conditions Stroke Tumors Sharing with you a brief overview about some of the diseases which can affect the brains under these categories: Brain Diseases: Infections Meningitis: In this disease there is inflammation which happens to the lining of the brain, or spinal cord and it’s caused by infection. Headache, neck pain and confusion are the common symptoms in this. Encephalitis: Swelling in the brain’s tissue because of some infection. Encephalitis and the Meningitis can occur together also which is known as the meningoencephalitis. Brain  [...]

A new research has brought to attention the mechanisms which facilitate the brain to focus, the discovery has been made regarded this function of brain as how brain successfully directs the pertinent information to those perceptual areas in the brain regions, suggested by the study. This study has been researched in the RIKEN Brains Science Institute (BSI) which has provided for valuable insights regarding brains function of focusing and how these focus can be disrupted and suggestions about the new ways of representing the information is such a manner which can augment the capacities of brain for focusing. Focusing of the attention by the brain is the natural ability which is because of the two distinct processes that is the Sensitivity enhancement and the efficient selection. Sensitivity  [...]

The most common cause of headache these days is over consumption of medicines which include aspirin, butalbital, and caffeine. The other side effects that are seen include nauseous, dizzy, drowsy, lightheaded feeling, disturbed sleep and abdominal pains. The patients need to decrease their dose of such medicines for at least a short period of time. It is also recommended that the patients keep a track of all the constituents that are present in the drugs which you take especially if one consumes more than single medicine for helping to avert any incongruity. The causes Specialists say that the people who rely too much are the people who consume more than two doses per week. Such people who take pain killers at even the slightest headaches need to reduce their doses. These people don’t realize  [...]

Bipolar disorder is a medical condition; is a disease which causes psychological problems which escalate to such a high degree that people find it hard to do even the mundane activities. Bipolar disorder is also called manic depression. Most common symptoms which people suffer during this disease is depression and mania. Emotional extremities that are displayed by a person are generally different from what normal person would react to similar event. Such responses can last for a long time and can lead to psychosis and even suicide in some cases. In simple terms, this condition can be described as affective disorder which can lead a person to manic and deep depression on one hand and elation on other. This definition might mislead you because it isn’t a simple condition. It affects other  [...]

A few people out there know about the brain’s anatomy. There a lot of different parts inside the brain and they all function differently. Brain is an amazing part of your body and it is also the central processing unit which sends different signals to the different parts of the human body. The brain receives, interprets, and directs all sorts of sensory information from one part of your body to the other. On the basic level, the human brain can be divided in to three different parts – hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain. Brain’s anatomy – the divisions of brain Forebrain : This part of the brain is responsible for the following functions – Reception and processing of sensory information Perception, thinking, and production and also understanding the language Controlling the  [...]

Seizures are the abnormal behavior or movement of the brain that happens when there is some kind of unusual electrical activity inside the brain. But it is not necessary that the people who look like they are suffering from seizures need to grapple with the epilepsy problem. In fact, the epilepsy belongs to a group of disorders which is characterized by seizure tendency that is recurrent. Types of seizures – The non epileptic seizure – They are also known as pseudo seizures and are not accompanied by abnormal electric activity that is found inside the brain. These might be caused due to stress of some other psychological problems. Such seizures can be treated using the psychiatric intervention. The provoked seizures – They are also known as single seizures which might occur do some  [...]

The sensation in which blood strikes the brain’s sensitive sheath can give a very debilitating headache to someone. This is what the physicians say. The name of the disorder is subarachnoid hemorrhage and was experienced by songster and reality luminary Bret Michaels before he was ushered to ER. The eyewitnesses say that Michaels was experiencing pain in his head that is similar to what you get when repeatedly hit by one base ball bat and the pain was ten times severe than a migraine. When there is subarachnoid hemorrhage, there is bleeding in gap in between the brain and the translucent tissue casing that is quite similar to a Web. This is also the location of the spinal fluid. The physicians are still probing about the reason behind subarachnoid hemorrhage of Bret Michaels. He was  [...]