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Know your medical terms: Concussion

May 3, 2013
As you wait patiently for the doctor to tell you and your loved ones about your illness, hoping against hope that everything is alright, the doctor speaks, but you don’t understand a single word! Packed with medical …

Know your medical terms: Benign

May 3, 2013
As you wait patiently for the doctor to tell you and your loved ones about your illness, hoping against hope that everything is alright, the doctor speaks, but you don’t understand a single word! Packed with medical …

Researchers identify ‘trauma switch’ that keeps us from going insane

October 8, 2012
It seems that our brain has a 'trauma switch' that prevents us from going insane! Researchers have identified a trauma switch that protects us from developing irrational and uncontrollable fear. Our brains have the extraordinary …

Sleeping aggravates trauma

January 18, 2012
Staying awake after experiencing a traumatic event greatly mitigates its effect, but falling asleep only worsens such an impact. If the traumatic scene is revisted or a flashback memory occurs, it will be just as upsetting as …