All of us experience stress on a daily basis. But do you know how it affects your brain? Let me start by explaining what stress is. The electrical circuit in your house has a fuse which is there to protect your appliances from an electrical surge. So, when lightning strikes your house, the fuse breaks and cuts off the electricity to your computer so that it won’t blow up. Just like the electrical circuit in your house, your brain has “fuses” called synapses. The synapses are

There is no doubt that is you want to keep your brain healthy, you should also pay attention to your body! The Roman dictum mens sana in corpore sano would indicate that we have known for some centuries about the benefits of regular physical exercise for the brain. More recently, Dr. Henriette van Praag, who studied opiate receptor function at Bar Ilan University in Israel, has worked on brain regeneration after injury and diseases at the Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk