Mental Wellbeing Mind Balance Neuroscience

What Is the Fight or Flight Response?

The fight-or-flight response is an innate physiological reaction to a perceived threat or stressful trigger. Automatic events within the body and sympathetic nervous system increase adrenaline and noradrenaline to prepare…

Biology Diet Lifestyle Neuroscience

The extracellular matrix

The extracellular matrix is comprised of non-cellular components within tissues that form an essential scaffold for cellular constituents. The structure of the extracellular matrix differs in composition between tissue types…

Biology Mind Balance Neuroscience

The Brain Dream Team: Prefrontal Cortex, Amygdala, and Hippocampus

The brain is the command centre of the body, like a supercomputer controlling everything we do, think, and feel. It's made up of billions of tiny cells called neurons that…

Mental Wellbeing Mind Balance Neuroscience

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a condition that affects people's behaviour. I was diagnosed with ADHD at age 48! There was no such thing when I was growing up and…

Nurse Sarah Barker’s Sharing Circle