Music is part of our life. Music has had deep roots in human culture throughout history. Listening to, enjoying, or playing music sometimes gives us pleasure, sadness, comfort, and even touches us deeply, causing life-changing experiences. Why does music have such a powerful affect on our brain?
Posts by Passion Jun, M.D.
Light Up Your Brain, Not Cigarettes
Although there is overwhelming evidence smoking is harmful to people’s health, many smokers claim that it is helping for releasing stress and improving concentration. Is that true? Research into smoking and stress has shown that instead of helping people to relax, smoking actually increases anxiety and tension
Vibrate Your Body (Pickin’ Up Good Vibrations) For Better Health
Vibration is not exercise per se — like doing pushups or going running — but it can be a good for the body and brain. Vibration exercise, in a physical sense, is a forced oscillation where energy is transferred from an actuator (the vibration device)
Exercises to Enhance Your Memory
Your brain, just like your body, undergoes change. While we tend to associate these changes with decline, scientific findings assure us that your brain can develop to become more flexible, capable, and integrated. Among the many changes that scare us is memory loss.
Three Easy Ways to Ready Children For Home-Schooling
Brain Education (BE) is a method developed by Ilchi Lee, for developing our innate human capacity for health, well-being, optimal achievement, and peacefulness through better self-management of the brain. It is an educational program designed to promote health, happiness, peacefulness, and achievement.
Why Laughter Is No Laughing Matter (For Your Health)
Laughter does have some positive psychological, physiological, and immunological impacts on our health, according to researchers. In fact there’s even a term for the study of laughter and laughing and the examination of its effects on the human body: “gelotology” — from the Greek gelos — meaning laughter.
The Importance Of Play: An Interview with Dr. Jaak Panksepp
All people have emotions — although some are more in touch with them than others—but most people don’t know how emotions work. Dr. Jaak Panksepp, a neuroscientist, psychologist and psychobiologist, coined the term “affective neuroscience” to refer to the study of the neural mechanisms of emotion.