Saturday Sanity: Let’s Catch Up!
June 21, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Because Celebrity Health Week was winding down, we didn’t have Saturday Sanity last Saturday.
Let’s see if we can get caught up, shall we?
This week at Mental Health Notes, I spent most of my time trying to get away from the topic of celebrities. I shared with you a study regarding the aroma of coffee and your brain, talked about the governor of Virginia’s decision to take a mentally ill inmate off death row, updated you on Pfizer’s defense of Chantix, discussed a study involving heavy marijuana use and brain size, and discussed another study involving the similarities in the brains …read more
Wake Up Your Brain With Coffee Aroma
June 17, 2008 by Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
I keep no secrets about my love affair with coffee; however, I know lots of folks steer clear of coffee because of the negative mental and physical effects it has on them such as making them nervous, jittery, unable to sleep, speeding up their heart rates, and in some cases even causing convulsions and delirium.
I didn’t start drinking coffee until I was…hmm…almost 20 years old, I believe, but I like to think in the last six years I’ve become quite seasoned. I know what brands I like and don’t like, I know the store chains with which I can trust …read more




