Your Brain on Music: Effects of Music Therapy on Different Functions of the Brain
Musical interactions help facilitate changes in emotion, cognition, attention, behavior, and communication. Thomas Hillecke and colleagues presented a “Heuristic Working Factor Model for Music Therapy” that assumes how each of these factors contributes to the effects of music therapy. Throughout this article, we will explain…
The Frontline Obsession by Dr. Radwa Al Attar
Written by Dr. Radwa Al Attar, Mental Health Specialist I spent so many years obsessed with the Halo of being “The first one” or what I can call now suffering from the Frontline obsession. When you are always in the front line, you can’t connect…
How Effective Is Hypnotherapy? By Ms. Merry Akiki
Written by Ms. Merry Akiki, Certified Hypnotherapist Hypnotherapy is fast, safe and effective healing therapy with a 93% Recovery Rate after only 6 sessions! Those statistics are the results of a 2007 psychotherapy comparative study conducted by Alfred A. Barrios PHD and published in the…
The Magic of Music
“Ah Music… a magic beyond all we do here!” — ALBUS DUMBELDORE, HEADMASTER Music is a form of magic, though we may not believe in magic but we need to believe in the magical power of music. This article is meant to let you stretch…
COVID-Somnia: Insomnia During COVID-19 Pandemic
It is neither rare nor uncommon to observe a rise in sleep-related problems during times of disasters, this has been historically documented. No wonder the most-recent worldwide crisis, the coronavirus, has implicated many aspects in peoples’ lives. It has affected employment, finances, health, social life…
Second Wave of COVID-19
In the past weeks, Egypt has started reporting over 1,000 daily cases. After several months of decline, Egypt couldn’t remain safe from the adversity of the coronavirus second wave and currently, Egypt is at the centre of the second wave. The number of coronavirus-related fatalities…
