How do drugs affect the brain? - Sara Garofalo
Most people will take a pill, receive an injection, or otherwise take some kind of medicine during their lives. But most of us don’t know anything about how these substances actually work. How can various compounds impact the way we physically feel, think, and even behave? Sara Garofalo explains how some drugs can alter the communication between cells in the brain
All of this knowledge, and a great deal more, has helped to build a range of practical treatments to improve pain by working with your brain. The skilled Clinicians at Perth Brain Centre are equipped to teach you how these brain exercises for pain work and how to incorporate them into your daily life, to reclaim your brain and your life from chronic or persistent pain experiences.
Statistically our screen time increases in the cooler and wetter months, particularly winter. So too our time spent in other sedentary activities increases. There is a natural-ness to some of this behaviour. This month we set out to explore different ways of thinking about winter, screens, activity, and how we de-stress.
If we’re honest it’s more like this time in the new year, not New Year’s Day, when life drifts back to what we think of as our ‘normal’ and we start to consider, perhaps, that we may desire a different kind of normal. We really do want some new-ness for ourselves. We daydream about it; we consider what we could change in our same old routine to transform our ordinary into a life perhaps far more extra-ordinary.
We need to know more about Fibromyalgia because knowledge improves understanding, and a better understood person is happier, healthier and ultimately in less pain.
To boost the awareness of Autism around Australia and around the world on World Autism Day, join Autism Awareness Australia in showing support and love for those affected by ASD. Send in photos of your crew with #OurAutismCrew to get involved!
November marks Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia (PANDA) Week. PANDA, now in it’s 18th year, is all about supporting the mental and emotional wellbeing of expecting and new parents.
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Learn more about the blood–brain barrier (BBB) here.
What happens if our brains, specifically young, growing brains, don’t get the nutrition they need? Interested in finding out more about how nerves work? Watch this TED-Ed Lesson.
