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"Culprits Behind Insomnia"

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Have you ever wondered why aren’t you getting a good night’s sleep? No matter how much you focus on counting backwards, you are still staring at the wall above your head, if that’s what you are going through, than keep reading as I will uncover some important reasons, which tricks the brain into sleeplessness and make you look like a zombie the next morning. In this article my main focus is on how insomnia affects our brain, factors causing insomnia, and how to combat it? But before we jump into uncovering the culprits, we should first understand what the doctors are regarding this problem as. This problem of sleep deprivation is actually called Insomnia, which is a sleep disorder and is the main culprit behind the difficulty of falling and/or staying asleep. Scientists and sleep experts have long acknowledged the fact that there is an essential and direct connection between the quality of sleep and improved mental health.  According to a recent study, in which the effects

"Split-Brain Syndrome"

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Consciousness still remains undivided when the brain is split into two halves, by a surgical procedure called corpus callosotomy – the severing of the bridge connecting the left and right brain has captivated psychiatrists and clinical psychologists since 1950s. This radical kind of brain surgery and the last resort to treat Epilepsy has failed to produce the expected treatment results. However, the decades of research and controversial experimental studies, allowed intriguing notions to come to light that has expanded our understanding of the brain, mind and the deep neural connections within.            As quoted by Sigmund Freud - “ The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”   The three pounds of tissue mass, the human brain, is a widely researched organ of the human body. In fact, most people including me are fascinated by the theory of Split Brain Syndrome. So, I am going to shed some light on this topic, together with some interest