Brain Disease

Lina was a precocious toddler - charming, chatty, joyful. At the age of three, in the aftermath of her second MMR vaccine, first came a seizure, and then, to her parents’ horror, the loss of Lina’s ability to play, use language, and control her impulses. Over the next few years they continued to lose Lina. She communicated her acute discomfort by biting, screaming, hitting, laughing maniacally, and throwing violent tantrums.

For the first time in my life, I didn't need to pretend, I didn't need to be tough: I only needed to be honest. "I have cerebral palsy. I walk funny and my balance is bad. I fall a lot. My hands shake, too. That means I'm not so good at carrying things. And if I drop stuff, sometimes it's hard to just bend down and get it." I waited anxiously for the interviewer's response. She smiled. "It sounds like a service dog could be great for you."

If you're into mental magic tricks and can't get enough of them, The Secret of Mental Magic Tricks: How To Amaze Your Friends with These Mental Magic Tricks Today will get you pretty excited. But what if you don't know much about it or are just getting started? This audiobook has you covered on that as well because it explains exactly what mental magic tricks are which includes the various rules.

Imagine life with death as a constant companion. It quietly sits next to you, coloring thoughts, feelings and words, utterly transforming your outlook on life. When Bruce H. Kramer was diagnosed with ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an always fatal neurological disease, the doctor who broke the devastating news thought he was giving Kramer a death sentence. It turned out to be a life sentence.

Twenty-one-year-old narcoleptic Angel Duet knows her father harbors secrets. He loves and protects her, but his suspicious refusal to discuss her mother's death drives Angel to worship an image created from the little history she does have: her father's sketchy stories and her mother's treasured photography, studies of clouds that have hung in the their foyer for more than twenty years. When her father's girlfriend moves in, the photographs come down, and Angel's search for truth becomes an obsession.

Ein motivierendes Hörbuch über den guten Umgang mit schlechten Diagnosen. Hendrik Heuermann erzählt seine Geschichte, von dem Moment an, in dem seine Welt unterging: Die Diagnose einer neuro-degenerativen Erkrankung und die Aussicht, in ein paar Jahren im Rollstuhl zu sitzen. Doch diese Tipps haben ihm geholfen, den Spaß am Leben zurückzugewinnen und die Gesundheit im Blick zu behalten. Getreu dem Motto: Warum der Reifen platt ist, ist egal.

The thrust of this book is nutrition and complimentary therapies for digital addiction, anxiety, bipolar, depression, and schizophrenia. Useful resources to find authoritative information on all the included mental disorders from the American medical perspective are included. Truisms that have been passed down through the ages about mental health that have stood the rigors of scientific inquiry are presented. The role of nutrition in ameliorating anxiety is discussed.

Donny Herbert was a hardworking Buffalo city firefighter who, in December 1995, was searching the attic of a burning house when the snow-laden roof collapsed. For six minutes he was without oxygen. A beloved husband, a father of four boys, Donny fell into a vegetative state that lasted nearly a decade. He was, for all practical purposes, gone. Until one day, in April 2005, when he woke up and spoke almost nonstop to his family and loved ones for nearly 18 hours.

When Tom DeBaggio turned 57 in 1999, he thought he was embarking on the golden years of retirement -- time to spend with his family, his friends, and the herb garden he spent decades cultivating. One winter day, he told his doctor during a routine exam that he had been stumbling into forgetfulness. After it subsequent battery of tests, DeBaggio joined the legion of 12 million others afflicted with Alzheimer's disease.

If you are one of the individuals that is seeking health and wellness on not just the physical level but the mental as well, you need to listen to Mental Strength Positive Attitude: 7 Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance In Life. This text gets right to the point and explains the best techniques that can be used to improve mental performance. The author has gone to great lengths to make the text as easy to understand as he possibly can and he also has put his own seal of approval of the methods as these are things that he has tried himself and has found to be successful.

“Strokes are the third-leading cause of death in America, and for the ‘lucky’ stroke victims who don’t die, about half will spend the rest of their lives trying to recover.” Roughly 700,000 American suffer a stroke each year and around 140,000 of them are fatal. Different Strokes is an in-depth look at what surviving, or not surviving, a stroke can mean.

Wie Sie trotz Fibromyalgie Ihre Lebensfreude beibehalten und sich in Ihrem Körper wohl fühlen. Können Sie sich an den Augenblick der Diagnose, die sich sicherlich wie ein Hammerschlag angefühlt hat, zurückerinnern? So wie Ihnen geht es weiteren 1,6 Millionen Deutschen, die an der schmerzhaften Krankheit und deren Folgen leiden. Sicherlich haben Sie in der Vergangenheit bereits zahlreiche Ärzte konsultiert, selbst Recherche angestellt und dutzende Ratgeber gelesen, deren Kernaussage häufig lautet.

Was ist eine Polyneuropathie? Welche Ursachen können für eine solche Erkrankung vorliegen und mit welchen Symptomen geht diese einher? Wie sehen die herkömmlichen Therapieformen aus, und was kann ich selber für mich tun, damit ich besser mit der Diagnose Polyneuropathie leben kann? Auf all diese Fragen erhältst du in diesem Ratgeber spannende Informationen und Antworten. Bei diesem Buch spielt es keine Rolle, ob du selbst an einer Polyneuropathie erkrankt bist oder jemanden in deinem Umfeld kennst, der an dieser Erkrankung leidet.

Aus der Ruhe lässt sich enorme Energie und Kraft schöpfen. Im alltäglichen Leben zeigt sich immer wieder, wie Ruhelosigkeit, Stress und seelische Belastungen Menschen komplett in Ihrem Tatendrang lähmen. Gleichzeitig werden viele körperliche und seelische Beschwerden wie etwa Migräne, Angstzustände, Depressionen und Probleme im Magen-Darm-Trakt durch den Sympathikus, das vegetative Nervensystem gesteuert. Um sich davon zu erholen, muss eine Aktivierung des Gegenspielers erfolgen.

For decades, researchers have chased a pharmaceutical cure for memory loss. But despite the fact that no disease-modifying biotech treatments have emerged, new research suggests that dementia rates have actually declined in the United States and Western Europe over the last decade. Why is this happening? And what does it mean for brain health in the future?

Many people–maybe even most people—know someone who has what they call Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s seems to be everywhere. That people are living longer today—long enough for it to manifest itself—is often given as the reason for its prevalence. But some of those people who have puzzling brain changes are surprisingly young; in their fifties—the middle of their lives. And what they have is not the “traditional” Alzheimer’s disease.

La prima serie di metodi guidati da ascoltare durante la fase del sonno per creare la tua migliore realtà... senza fare niente! Questo è un metodo guidato straordinario per la programmazione della mente subconscia durante la fase del sonno. Questi brani sono progettati come un percorso grazie al quale potrai programmare attivamente la tua mente subconscia per raggiungere il tuo obiettivo di benessere fisico, mentale e spirituale. Tutti i livelli cerebrali vengono stimolati con frequenze specifiche. Le onde cerebrali (Brainwave) variano a seconda dello "stato" o "livello" della mente.

In 1985, when Cindy Weinstein was a graduate student at UC Berkeley, her beloved father, Jerry, was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. He was 58 years old. Twelve years later, at age 70, he died having lost all of his memories, along with his ability to read, write, and speak.

In the past few years, the understanding of the vagus nerve has helped many people worldwide to face some chronic diseases better, finding relief both in their body and minds. The polyvagal theory by Dr. Stephen Porges is the basis of the knowledge about this important nerve. This theory focuses on the nervous system and on how it reacts to different traumas.

La vida contemporánea nos brinda infinitas oportunidades de satisfacer nuestros deseos, aunque también numerosas tentaciones. Y en un mundo saturado de pantallas, inmersos en rutinas que no nos permiten alimentarnos adecuadamente, descansar o ejercitarnos, nuestros cerebros libran una dura batalla cuyos resultados nos han dejado más solitarios, ansiosos, deprimidos y propensos a las enfermedades y al sobrepeso. Pero no tenemos que vivir así.