Podcasts

In our very first episode of season 2, we are in a conversation with Psychologist, Dr Tang. Dr Tang is a co-director of the Oregon Mind Body Institute, a mental health center that offers prevention and treatment using mindfulness based interventions. Just as good...

In understanding the teenage brain, the hardest part is undoubtedly grasping all the neural changes that take place during this era. The adolescent brain is a time of many, many changes, so let's get started.

Firstly, the virus may have the capacity to enter the brain and cause a severe infection. In fact, several patients have been observed with the viral genetic material in the Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and even in the brain. Potentially, the virus could enter through...

This is our episode of the “Our Teen Brains” podcast titled titled ‘Brain is a Plastic Organ’. The brain is a plastic organ. NO, it is most certainly not made of plastic, that would be certainly troublesome but it is very flexible and easy to change. Everyone has of...

“Teenagers confront challenges, pressures, stresses, temptations, and asks in brains that are not yet fully developed. It’s not just that teenagers haven’t had the time and experience to acquire a wide sense of the world; quite simply, their brains just haven’t...

'“We know that on a grand scale, teenagers suffer from mental health problems but when it comes to each child, individually, we sometimes fail to overlook some of the key signs of their anxiety, mistaking it to be “just a teenage thing”. . “

“It all started with a brain, a sheep brain that is! In my 8th grade and then I, a newly minted teen was introduced by my Biology teacher to a neuroscience club and it was there I discovered a seemingly simple looking organ - the brain - which controls our ability to...