Watch out: Your stress could change my brain

An Indian-origin doctor at the University of Calgary in Canada has led research that shows that stress could be infectious – that transmitted stress could impact the brain. The effects of stress, however, could be reversed – in female mice – through social interaction. No such reversal was observed in male mice.

The discovery was published in January in Nature Neuroscience by Jaideep Bains and his team at the Cumming School of Medicine’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), at the University of Calgary, Canada.

World Mental Health Day: Going through depression? Here are 5 simple ways to get your life back on track

• Here are small but significant steps that will help you to get your life back on track.

Get your life life back on trackby doing these little things

Depression can completely throw apart every little bit of your daily life making it difficult for you to pick up the pieces. Here are small but significant steps, as perWebMD, that will help you to get your life back on track.

-Get into a routine: Living in depression means you no longer are able to plan and execute your daily goals and targets. Each hour just seems to melt away into the next. Simply start small and set up a schedule for yourself for daily tasks. As you start following the routine, it will boost your confidence and you can gradually move towards having your normal routine back.

Beneficial Junk Foods!!!!

Recent studies have proved that certain junk foods can also be beneficial. Indulging in some of these junk foods of course limited quantities may impart goodness.

Baked snacks
These are the most recent introductions which contain very less oil and made of whole wheat and dash of spice. Which is a delight for the taste buds and curb cravings. Whole wheat crackers that are available is the best example for baked snacks and is a preferred tea time snack. 

Processed Cheese
The anti-carcinogenic properties found in cheese is an effective antioxidant.

Dark Chocolates
Dark chocolates help keep blood pressure under control.

Red wine
Resveratrol in the red wine helps prevent inflammations. It is also rich in antioxidants that prevent heart disease and cancer.   

Popcorn
A desirable movie accompaniment helps to curb cravings a is very less in calories.

Dyslexia caused by faulty signal processing in brain: study

Dyslexia, a learning disability can result when the medial geniculate nucleus in the thalamus of the brain does not process speech sounds correctly, a new study has claimed.

Researchers from Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig found that many difficulties associated with dyslexia can potentially be traced back to a malfunction of the medial geniculate nucleus in the thalamus.

The thalamus is a large, dual lobed mass of grey matter buried under the cerebral cortex. It is involved in sensory perception and regulation of motor functions.

There are three proposed cognitive subtypes of dyslexia: auditory, visual and attentional.