Your lifestyle choices directly impact the health of your nervous system
From diet to exercise and more, your nervous system directly benefits from better lifestyle choices.
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What about All Those Football Head Injuries?
The NFL & Football Head Injuries After all the celebrating and champagne toasts, after all the confetti has been swept from the floor, many players are still left with trauma to their brains from all those “hits” on the field, even those that don’t lead to an actual concussion. While we as fans are exhilirated…
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Welcome to the Dubin Clinic Blog
About The Dubin Clinic Blog Even back in high school I was completely fascinated by “”mind”. I was reading Freud, Jung, Judaism and Buddhism. To pursue my high school understanding “wisdom”, I tried to meditate. Using a tattered paperback book on Zen by DT Suzui for instructions, I had a really important insight–that trying too…
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Treatment & Causes of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Causes of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder People with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, have recurrent thoughts and behaviors that can be crippling. This form of mental illness can affect anyone, from adults to the elderly. It’s also not uncommon to hear of children with OCD either, it’s believed that they can be genetically influenced to have the…
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Treating traumatic brain injuries with Direct Neurofeedback
Is direct neurofeedback right for treating your brain injury?
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Treat Anxiety without Medication
Dr. Dubin Treats Anxiety without Medication Article from the PalisadianPost by Sue Pascoe Anxiety is an invisible force that millions of people across the world have to deal with. It can massively affect someone’s life as their anxiety can get so bad they just want to shut the world out. Research has also shown that…
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Helps Stroke Patients
TMS Helps Stroke Patients Improve Language Function A new study done at the Laboratory for Cognition and Neural Stimulation at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School shows that Trans Cranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) can improve language function in stroke patients with chronic speech-language problems. A stroke (or CVA, as they are referred to in medicine— a cerebral vascular accident)…
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The Truth About NFL Concussion Research
NFL Concussion Research & Brain Injury Updates Most of the information in this week’s blog comes from a very recent series of articles in the NY Times. It’s been a busy few weeks for discussing concussions in the NFL. Jeff Miller, the NFL’s senior VP for health and safety policy, was recently asked to comment…
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The Same Medications for Different Psychiatric Disorders. Why?
How Do Drugs From 1 Psychiatric Disorder Treat Symptoms of Another How is it that Lamotrigine, an antiepileptic, can help depression, a seemingly different disorder altogether? And why can Prozac, an antidepressant, help reduce anxiety? Or an antipsychotic for schizophrenia help depression? In other words, how is it that drugs for one type of major…
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The Brain and Free Will
The Brain, Free Will & Eastern Philosophy This is not a typical blog for me because it is not clinical; the focus is not on diagnosis or treatment. But it’s still about the brain and a topic I’ve been interested in for years—free will. In this blog we’ll start with the brain, move on to…
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