you're on the board of the institute for music and neurologic function. and i was reading about them. it's really fascinating work, looking at the science of how to use music as therapy for people from-- those who have alzheimer's and parkinson's to stroke. can music heal people? >> it can, and it can in very real non-anecdotal ways. basically, up until about-- and i don't wanna seem too pedantic, but up until about 20 or 30 years ago, most neuroscientists believed that we had a finite number of neurons. now, let's say you hit 10 years old, you had all the brain cells you were ever gonna have. and the goal was to just, like, try and not get rid of too many of them. thanks to, like, fmris and pet scans, and new diagnostics, neurologists and neuroscientists have discovered that the brain can go-- can be involved in this process of neurogenesis, of making new brain cells forever, up until the day you die, largely based on what we do with the brain. you know, so the nice thing is, neurogenesis is promoted by health and well being. you know, so being physicall

regular and that over time will improve your health from your heart to immune system, even neurological function. this is not the first study to show a direct healthlink to organic foods. that anti-oxidants were higher in organic foods than other items. this was published in the british journal of nutrition. russell? >> we're in the southeast and florida panhandle. folks are cleaning up today. a line of storms that moved through our area earlier this morning brought tornadoes on monday. louisiana, a pizza hut destroyed. customers had to run for cover. escambia county in florida say 10 homes were either destroyed or significantly damaged. happens near pensacola. a 94-year-old woman had to be rescued after she was trapped inside her home. meanwhile in the northeast, temperatures are moderate from that incredible arctic blast over the weekend. now, they're dealing with snow. businesses will be late opening today, including the goddard nasa facility and schools, if they weren't closed also have delayed the start of the day. because of all that cold and the snow and ice, the airport have not been run

neurology, psychiatry. psychiatry got the space in the brain that was the most highly evolved. mediate the mental functions of cognition, perception, and emotion. based on mental illness and the purview of psychiatry or neural psychiatry, it accomplishes what is traditionally thought of as mental illness, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety, eating disorder, dementia in the intellectual and mental disorders. in the addictions, alcohol and drugs. these are all effectiveness same real estate in the brain and are disturbing by varying degrees these method functions. >> very expansive definition. keeping your definition in mind, i picked up the newspaper this morning, for the young people here, this here, this is a newspaper. you might not have seen one before. panel urges screening for maternal depression. very interesting to me. for several several reasons, but the reason i want to ask you about it is, this is the kind of headline where people say, zero, maternal depression is now mental illness. and what i want to ask you, are we perhaps experiencing a little definition creep when it comes

things they need to do, they may get pulses back and they may leave the hospital neurologically intact and be able to function in a normal lifestyle. "again... both this demonstration and the free car seat safety checks will happen next saturday... february 13th... from 10 a - m until 1 p - m at fire station 4 on hamilton boulevard. 3 thinking about whether or not to get a new gym membership? in this tech minute... c - net dot com's sharon (pro - fiss) profis has three apps with workouts you can do when you're at home or traveling. 3 trt: 0:57must font cgs:sharon profis / cnet.comtake pkg: maybe you want to get in shape but aren't ready to splurge on zova for ios is an app with a huge library of at-home workout videos. the workouts are anywhere from 3 to 30 minutes and target all muscle groups. the best part is that the workouts only require an area the size of a yoga mat. nike training club is one of my long-time favorites, since you can follow along with just audio cues. so, pick your workout based on your fitness headphones and go. if you stumble upon an exercise you don't know, pause and watch a video of

function better. healthy living and a fair amount of exercise will help keep your brain strong (dr. david loring/ professor of neurology and pediatric, emory university) both social interaction that you have and some of the more broad type of activities in which you engage are related to maintaining a level so if you want to play a few brain games now and then, it's probably not the worst thing you can do-but don't forget to get outside, see people and try something new, because those brain boosters areree. holly firfer, cnn jenna: after the break... more about a favorite siouxland event where you get to after the break... more about a favorite siouxland event where you get to spend some time with the sioux city musketeers. skinner from face off for charity. its that time of year for the sioux day charity event, charity. the event place thurdsay the 20th. calendars for the musketeers' signature three y charity event, charity", scheduled for thursday, february 18 through saturday, february 20 on the ice at the tyson events center and on the center's south concourse. you'll have the opportunity to have a meal served by o

function better. healthy living and a fair amount of exercise will help keep your brain strong (dr. david loring/ professor of neurology and pediatric, emory university) both social interaction that you have and broad type of activities in which you engage are related to maintaining a level of function at optimum levels so if you want to play a few brain games now and then, it's probably not the worst thing you can do-but don't forget to get outside, see people and try something new, because those brain boosters are free. lukas: we are now one step closer to a true driverless car. regulators have given google the go-ahead to build their proto type car. it will have no steering wheel, no accelerator, and no brakes. states can still pass laws that require vehicles to have those but federal regulators have opened the way for -- perhaps -- faster development of truly driverless cars. google, for years, has been telling safety regulators that its self-driving cars are safer than cars driven by humans. of course, those cars are still years away from actually going on sale. lukas: scott: lukas and scott are chatting about dri

functions. >> justin came out of the operating room. he was connected up on the ventil ators. >> his arms and feet were black. >> the neurological exam showed so little brain >> >> no one in this condition >> joining us were justin's family members, dad, mom, sonya, and his sisters athley and sara -- ashley and sara join us in the audience. thank you. [ applause ] >> john i want to start with you, what goes through a man's mind when he pulls up on the side of the road, frozen conditions and sees his sons body with a blanket over it. >> it was like, huh, i couldn't believe it. i just held him and sobbed. it was, it was the worst day of my life! >> it felt to me like, if you hadn't been blessed to show up there, there's a good chance justin may have been taken to the morgue. >> he didn't have any id, on him. everything worked out in such a way, i can't explain it. i really can't explainit. >> dr. travis: think about the scenario, he's out there. there's snow. the fact that you were able to is just one element of the story that's a miracle. but then i want to ask the further question. we all know in emergency medicine that, prolonged cardiac a

neurological and chronic diseases. now, the kamaths are turning their focus to rare genetic diseases, like niemann pick type c, a fatal disorder that slowly degrades brain function. two of bryan hadley's kids, peyton and kayla, were diagnosed he described the symptoms over skype from his home in oregon. 6:41-:47 "slow speech, they have ataxia, balalce problems, vement."in his search for a treatment, hadley found kamath's team. through its work with the national institutes of health, they found a drug that slowed the disease's progression. the results were almost immediate. 9:30-:37 "they regained their speech back, their balance was better, swallowing better." it's not a cure, but hadley says it's buying g s family time until researchers can find one. anant says they want to find as many cures to as many diseases as they can, but they need blood and tissue samples from patients to do that. eventually, he hopes to be able to cure fatal diseases like end-stage cardiac failure and alzheimer's. 10:31-:37 "our goal is to create a toolkit for patients, so they can be treated for things that are now terminal." in coralville, brady smith, kcrg tv-9 news. if you'd like t