Researchers have long been predicted that favorite music of the person can bring people to the flashback, but now the scientists have founded the part of the brain in which all this mechanism occurs.

Pre-frontal cortex is a part of the brain, situated right behind the forehead. This part of brain act like a host and stored all the memories like dancing and singing.

When we heard the familiar music, it works as a soundtrack that starts a movie in our mind. It recalls the memories related to a situation, person or place and you can immediately see the image in front of you.

Janata began was suspecting that pre-frontal cortex is a process of music and its related memories. Then during the experiment he observed that this portion was actively following the rhythm of the music. This same region, in response to the self reflection, illuminates and reminds the autobiography.

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Many people do not understand why individuals become addicted to drugs or how drugs change the brain to promote irrational drug abuse. They consider drug abuse and addiction as strictly a social evil and may characterize those who take drugs as morally weak.

One school of thought is that, drug abusers should be able to just stop taking drugs if they are only willing to change their behavior. What people misjudge is the complexity of drug addiction. It is a disease that affects the brain and due to this reason, stopping drug abuse is not simply a matter of willpower.

The general intention of drug rehab is to facilitate the patient to cease substance abuse and successful treatment for restoration of productive lives by using scientific techniques.

Addiction

Addiction is a chronic condition, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences to the individual that is addicted and to those around them. Drug addiction is a brain disease because the drug abuse brings structural and functional changes in it.

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NEW YORK - Scientists announced this week, a new report which evidence that, a little amount of the chemical “bisphenol A” (BPA), largely used to make plastic food and drinking containers, can harm brain function in higher creatures such as monkey or human , expanding the findings of prior research conducted in rats.

Whether the quantity of BPA that leaches into food and beverages through container, represents an environmental risk is a subject of argument.

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