Interestingly however, whether it is our left hemisphere that is more dominant or our right one, the distinction can impact our personality and the decisions we make. For example, left-brain people are more organized and systematic. Right-brain people are more creative and intuitive.

It provides a total brain workout.” Research has shown that listening to music can reduce anxiety, blood pressure, and pain as well as improve sleep quality, mood, mental alertness, and memory.

Generally music has been regarded as a right-brain activity because of its reliance on creativity. But brain-imaging research has shown music does involve both hemispheres, although a majority of activity does occur in the right side of the brain.

Hemispheric specialization, or lateralization as it is often referred to, was originally thought to be a unique human characteristic but appears to be a general property among vertebrate brains.

What happens in the brain when we confuse left and right? Damage in this brain area can lead to the so-called Gerstmann Syndrome (Gold et al., 1995), a rare neurological condition in which patients show four key syndromes: Finger agnosia (inability to name or distinguish the fingers)

In normal people, the switch allows either the left or right hemisphere to be dominant during different mental tasks, with the two sides constantly taking turns. He maintains that one hemisphere can be more immature than the other and that this imbalance leads to different mental disorders.

Many believe that to be good in mathematics you need to be left-brained, or a logical and analytical thinker. Whereas if you’re right-brained, or creative and free-thinking, you are doomed to struggle with the subject. But did you know this notion has been scientifically proven false? It’s true!

Right-brained people are said to be more:

• creative.
• free-thinking.
• able to see the big picture.
• intuitive.
• likely to visualize more than think in words.

Here are three right brain exercises you may want to try:

1. Exercise #1: Connect the Dots. Identify something on the left side of your field of vision, and something on the right, and move your eyes back and forth between the two.
2. Exercise #2: Breathe Through Your Left Nostril.
3. Exercise #3: Tickle Your Funny Bone.

The cerebellum (back of brain) is located at the back of the head. Its function is to coordinate voluntary muscle movements and to maintain posture, balance, and equilibrium.

Imaging studies suggest that the happiness response originates partly in the limbic cortex. Another area called the precuneus also plays a role. The precuneus is involved in retrieving memories, maintaining your sense of self, and focusing your attention as you move about your environment.

Nausea and a lack of balance/coordination often occur when someone’s brain is injured. Depending on the parts of the brain affected, any number of other physical symptoms like weakness, dizziness, vomiting, blindness, paralysis, or worse could occur as well.

Brain damage cannot be healed, but treatments may help prevent further damage and encourage neuroplasticity. No, you cannot heal a damaged brain. Medical treatments can just help to stop further damage and limit the functional loss from the damage. The healing process of the brain is not the same as the skin.