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Charles Bonnet Syndrome, Where Blind People visualize strange things!!

The name above has already reviled how weird this syndrome is, where a blind person visualizes things That Are Not Real. Charles Bonnet Syndrome is a rare neuro-ophthalmological condition that occurs in people who are either blind or have almost lost their vision. This causes them to have closed-eye hallucinations or visual hallucinations. The hallucination in this case can be a simple pattern, objects, animals, and even people which are only visual and do not involve any auditory or other sensation.

Most of the people who develop Charles Bonnet syndrCharles Bonnet Syndrome, Where Blind People visualize strange things!! ome, think that it is caused by some mental health problems, but they need to know that it is the loss of eyesight that is responsible for this syndrome; they are not caused by mental health disorders.

Encephalitis Lethargica, A mysterious epidemic

In our childhood, some of us might have played a game where we needed to stand like a statue on a call from one of us. And if someone was caught moving, then that person would be out of the game…

Remember?

Now just imagine how it feels to stay in the same posture for a long time, Or I might say for months or years. You can see everything, hear everything but can’t respond to anything.

Horrible, right?

If we could time travel to 1915, then we can probably see this exact scenario in almost all houses in Europe. A mysterious disease came all of a sudden and caused one of the most dangerous epidemics the world has ever seen.

Asthma And Its Immunological Aspect

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects our respiratory system and causes bronchial hyper-reactivity, mucus overproduction, and airway narrowing. It leads to shortness of breathing, suffocation, and wheezing. Asthma is a prevalent medical condition. According to a survey, almost 1 in 10 children and 1 in 12 adults are affected, and worldwide 300 million people are affected by Asthma.

On immunological basis, asthma can be differentiated into:

Why Sad Music Feels So Special?

We all have at least one favorite sad music/sad song added to our playlist. Whenever we start feeling low, we used to play that sad song/sad music in a loop. Sometimes people get lost in the beautiful sounds of sad music and even enjoy listening to it for hours. Sad music is also thought to evoke sadness. Then have you ever thought, what is the reason behind this affection towards listening to a piece of such music when sadness catches our mood??? Why do people dealing with depression and sadness like listening to Sad Music or Sad Songs???

Let’s find the answer…

Multiple Sclerosis, The Details You Need to Know

We all have a god gifted defense mechanism in our body, our immune system. When it feels something wrong entered in our body it directly attacks them, but sometimes it also makes some wrong judgment and attacks our own healthy cells and organs. This results in autoimmune diseases.

This blog is all about one of those rare autoimmune diseases, Multiple Sclerosis.

Where our very own immune system attacks our brain and spinal cord…

Exploring the Books of Dr. Oliver Sacks

Dr. Oliver Wolf Sacks, a neurologist who contributed his whole career in neurological development and for the betterment of the society. Dr. Sacks shared his knowledge and experiences with the whole world through his beautiful writing.

On the day of his 88th birth anniversary I am dedicating this blog to him and here sharing a brief review of his famous books.

Happy reading…

Musicogenic Epilepsy | A Disease One Never Thought Can Exist

Music acts like a medicine at the time of our physical & mental illness. But ever thought that it can also cause a disorder or can induce the effect of a disorder. Shocking, right???

But this is TRUE!!!

Music can trigger some diseases or even can cause some disorders. These are known as Musicogenic Diseases.

This article is all about a music induced disorder I.e., Musicogenic Epilepsy. A disease we never thought can exist.

Book Review: The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway

This is the tiniest book on my bookshelf, but it has taken a much bigger place in my heart. This book with 99 pages will bring you to the middle of the sea, you will be on a small fishing boat with the old man Santiago, the adventure of eighty-four days will make you fall in love with this old man. His courage, energy, enthusiasm will remind you that how young the old man is. As a virtual partner, you probably can not accompany him so he will be all alone in this eighty-four days of journey and missing his only little friend Manolin.

This book was written simply and has two sides; one is adventurous, the other is full of life lessons. The main character of this book is the old man Santiago, who is a very experienced and skilled fisherman from Cuba. He was called “salao” by the local people of his area, which means he was at the worst form of unluckiness. The other highlighted character is Manolin, a young boy who learned fishing from Santiago and really loves and cares about him. Because of family restrictions Manolin wasn’t able to join Santiago in his next fishing journey, and just wished him very good luck. But it was Santiago’s fortune, his bad luck stayed with him for 84 days of his fishing on the sea of Cuba. Twist came on the 85th day, which suddenly changed the story when Santiago hooked a marlin fish. The smart giant marlin then started making him struggle every single moment. Though insufficient sleep, wounded hand, hunger, and thrust made Santiago physically weak but he was a young-minded old man who challenged the fish and vowed to kill this giant soon. It took 3 days to kill the fish. The story didn’t end here, he was with a piece of good luck this time but again luck betrayed him. As he was in the sea on the way to his home, a group of sharks attacked the dead fish. Then Santiago’s struggle continued with this verse of the story. Just imagine an old man in the middle of the sea with a dead fish attacked by a group of dangerous sharks, what could be more worse than that? After a treacherous fight finally, he was able to reach home with that giant, though only its trace remained there with him. The story ended with a bunch of beautiful and thrilling memories from the sea and a lesson to stay happy in every situation.

Santiago’s struggle with the giant marlin fish will thrill you up, but in the end, it will make you emotional. His relation with Manolin will remind you again that friendship has no age limit.

The unique diversity of this book makes it winning Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Nobel Prize in Literature for Ernest Hemingway.

I have finished it so early, and right now, I am missing it very badly. Now when I see the name “The Old Man and the Sea” it creates a clear world of imagination in front of my eyes, where I am on a fishing boat again with Santiago, he is struggling with the giant marlin and murmuring on his own that “I wish I had the boy”…

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Happy Reading!!!

A Year At A Glance

I can still recall that day,

All set, editing done, the first article uploaded, logo placed, waiting for hitting the publish button, and everything will come in front of the world to see. Yes, my Serotonin and Dopamine levels were high, but not more than my Norepinephrine level.

And then, with all this dramatic excitement, I did it.

Ahhh!!! You might be thinking this explanation is more dramatic than my situation that day…

You are right; I am more excited today. I can assuredly tell you, that my Serotonin and Dopamine levels have increased right now, even more than that time; and my norepinephrine lost the battle. I don’t feel anxious about writing or publishing a blog today. The world around me has changed a lot in this one year. Yes, this boy currently writing in English had to have a fear of English even a year ago.

Let me tell you from the beginning, It won’t be too long, I promise…

When I first thought of doing it, I was in the middle of the sea. YouTube was my school to learn about website designing and publishing. And from there only, I became acquainted with multiple website hosting platforms; damn confusing, right? So I started contacting some people/groups, those who were acquainted with the pros and cons. Most of them ignored me, it's absolutely normal; they might have been thinking, “who is this random guy texting?”. But yes, many of them were so kind; they replied back with the exact information I wanted to get. After a month or two months of research and networking, I finally selected WIX as my website hosting platform. The struggle began here,

After purchasing the most comfortable hosting plan, I started designing my website. It was difficult but exciting and interesting. Again YouTube, being the world’s most popular institute, educated me about Website designing. And without any degree, I passed the challenge successfully, and I guess I have done justice with that. I am still learning about it, and there is still a lot to know.

Meantime, I was obsessed with Oliver Sack’s books, and 'Musicophilia' was my read of that time. It was then that I found that music can even sometimes cause diseases, and there is not much discussion among common people regarding them. I got my topic from that spark, and started reading papers, articles, and books and started writing on it. After a lot of diffidence, I finally finished writing my first blog and scheduled it on the day of my website release.

So it was 25/05/2021 when I started blogging officially by publishing my Blog site, The Musical Brains. And "Musicogenic Epilepsy" was the first and only content that witnessed that happening. After publishing, I shared it among all my friends and family members and waited for the response to come. Many of them appreciated it; many of them said 'why to start all this when you have a carrier ahead in music & biotechnology, do focus on them'; many of them suggested some changes, which could make it better; and many said nothing.

So today, when my blog is completing its one year with its little content, I am feeling proud of myself. The boy with zero writing skills today has completed his one year in this new world and might have done very little work or ordinary work but has reached readers in more than 14 countries. And you know without all of you it would have been impossible to enter this world of words in science. So I am really grateful to you all for all this love and support. I hope with all your blessings my brain will continue finding new topics of its own subject and my music will whisper its presence in my writing.

Now, wait for my next blog…

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