25 Mar What Is Visual Attention?
You may be reading a tweet and catch a typo that you want to correct, walk past a pond and see a goldfish from under the water, or do a double-take when something catches your...
20 Feb How an Aerobic Workout May Help To Improve Neurological Rehabilitation
Aerobic exercise has been studied extensively for its physical, mental, and cognitive health benefits. Of interest is how often physical therapists may prescribe an aerobic exercise regimen for their clients with neurological disorders. The utilization...
11 Feb How Depression Can Turn You Into A Burrito & What You Can Do About It
We have all experienced depression at some point in our lives. Depression is the “common cold” of mental illnesses, as many people experience depression for various reasons. Depression can be caused by experiencing challenging situations...
04 Feb Can Depression Cause Cognitive Decline?
We know that mental health plays an important role in our physical and cognitive health in the present, but it also may impact us later in life. Depression is a common psychological disorder that everyone...
02 Feb What Are Concussions?
Many people have known someone who has or has personally experienced a concussion. Concussions are prevalent, but people often do not know what exactly they are. In this blog post, we discuss what concussions are...
24 Jan What Causes The Onset of Psychosis?
Psychosis is a debilitating psychological condition that causes an individual to experience psychotic thinking patterns, sense things that are not in their present environment, and experience cognitive complications. Many factors are suspected of contributing to...
19 Jan The Negative Symptom of Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia has negative symptoms that affect a person's ability to think, feel, and act. To clarify, negative symptoms do not automatically mean "bad". While they might not be desirable, negative in this context means an...
11 Jan What Is Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a complex psychological disorder. People with schizophrenia may experience hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, abnormal motor skills, affective symptoms, and cognitive impairment. Schizophrenia can be debilitating, causing someone not to be able to function...
27 Dec Cognitive Rehabilitation of Memory Problems in Patients with Epilepsy
If you live in the northern hemisphere, you are probably familiar with the drastic change of seasons. With the switch from the summer to the fall comes not only cooler weather, but less daily sunlight....
26 Nov What Is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)?
If you live in a place that has drastic changes in seasonal weather, you may be familiar with emotional changes that can come from getting less sunlight. ...