Know the Symptoms of Brain Swelling
Swelling is a serious complication of brain injury and can lead to brain damage. But there are other causes of brain swelling as well, so it’s important to know symptoms.
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Traumatic brain injury recovery depends on identifying post-trauma symptoms, maintaining neurochemical balance, and implementing cognitive rehabilitation strategies.
The Surprising Impact Exercise Has on Your Eye Sight
Exercise is even better for your health than previously thought. New research claims it has both vision and brain benefits.
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Maria Shriver's Important Mission for Women's Brain Health and America's Adderall Epidemic
Journalist, author and former first lady of California Maria Shriver and her daughter Christina Schwarzenegger sat down with LIVESTRONG's Jess Barron to discuss their new documentary "Take Your Pills."
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Kate Walsh Reveals She Was Diagnosed With a Brain Tumor
Actress Kate Walsh revealed that she was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2015 - read about the symptoms that raised a red flag.
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How Does Soccer Affect the Body?
Playing a 90-minute game of soccer is an intense experience, and affects your whole body, from your brain to your feet. Playing the sport provides cardiovascular and muscular fitness. The bulk of the work is done by your legs, but you use many other muscles as well.
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The fascinating effect social media has on your memories
Documenting your experiences on social media may have a negative impact on your memory of them, claims a new study.
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What Just One Glass of Wine Does to Your Brain
Research shows that just one glass of wine or beer each night with a little extra on the weekends could be harming your brain, especially your memory.
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A Win for Gamers! Why You Should Play Super Mario Every Day
According to new research from the University of Montreal, Super Mario 64 can help to slow cognitive decline in older adults.
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LIVESTRONG Leaders Submit Important Panels for Austin's SXSW 2018! They Need Your Votes!
Vote now to get LIVESTRONG.COM VP and GM Jess Barron's and Social Media Director Lia Haberman's panel discussion ideas accepted for SXSW 2018!
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Does Blood Flow to the Brain Increase During Exercise?
When you exercise, increased activity in your muscles triggers an increased need for oxygen-rich blood. To meet this vital need, your heart rate speeds up and blood flow to your body increases.
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Effects of Brain Swelling
When any tissue in the body is injured there is a degree of swelling that results from bruising, chemical release and healing. But the brain is inside an enclosed skeletal shell, the skull.
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Why Do I Feel Lightheaded When Bodybuilding?
Strength training and bodybuilding place a lot of stress on your body. Heavy weights that cause you to strain more than normal can affect your blood pressure and heart rate.
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Signs of a Pathological Liar
It all comes down to gray and white--matter that is. A study conducted by Yaling Yang and Adrian Raine of the University of Southern California (USC) College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, showed there are structural abnormalities in the brains of pathological liars.
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Medications to Increase Dopamine
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps us feel pleasure and stay motivated. A lack of dopamine is also central to the development of Parkinson’s Disease and restless leg syndrome.
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Head Trauma Signs to Watch
Every year, thousands of people are affected by some sort of head trauma. Head trauma is classified as an injury to the head, neck, scalp or brain. This trauma is a serious injury that can lead to major health issues, including death.
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Temporal Lobe Tumor Symptoms
Approximately 180,000 people are diagnosed with a brain tumor each year, according to the American Brain Tumor Association. A brain tumor is simply a mass of abnormal cells that grows in the brain. The temporal lobe processes sounds and spoken words as well as memory and emotion.
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Does Exercise Release Dopamine?
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter -- a molecule that neurons release to communicate with each other -- that is synthesized from the amino acid tyrosine.
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Can You Exercise After a Concussion?
If you have experienced a concussion, you may wonder when it is safest to resume exercising. Concussions, a type of head injury also known as mild traumatic brain injury, affect many people in the United States -- 128 people out of every 100,000 each year, according to the February 2009 "
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Vitamins for Mental Clarity
The brain requires daily nutrition for optimal performance. If this is not received, mental clarity is affected. Signs of reduced mental clarity include poor memory, trouble recounting specific times or locations, and an inability to cope with stress.
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The Parts of the Brain That Affect Learning
In the human brain, information must be stored in order for learning to take place. So, the areas of the brain that are most important to learning are those involved in memory. Other crucial areas include regions involved in processing information from the five senses and information about your body.
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