Day-Dreaming: What Happens in the Brain?

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The recent discovery of a network in the brain dedicated to autobiographical mental imagery is helping researchers understand the many purposes that day-dreaming serves in our lives. They have called this web of neurons “the default network,” because when we are not absorbed in more focused tasks, the network fires up. The default network appears […]

How A Healing Session Works

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I always get a deep sense of satisfaction when I read that something in science has ‘proved’ what we know in the healing & energy worlds. During a healing session, there is not only an energetic phenomenon that occurs, but also a simultaneous psycho-emotional component. This is why during a healing people can often experience […]

Was Michelangelo a Secret Neuro Geek?

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As someone who likes to combine things – I have a fondness for working on reports and articles in cafes wherever I happen to be in the world – I can appreciate this study. Two neuroscientists have ‘discovered’ that Michelangelo was conveying secret messages about neuroanatomy in his artwork on the Sixtine Chapel ceiling. Was […]

How Estrogen Can Lead to Addiction

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In a recent study, neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, report that hormone fluctuations during a woman’s menstrual cycle may affect the brain as much as do substances such as caffeine, methamphetamines or the popular attention drug Ritalin. Scientists have known for decades that working memory (short-term information processing) is dependent on the chemical […]

Going Out With a Bang

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You are probably no stranger to the fact that people who have come back from the verge of death have said that it was as if ‘their whole life flashed before their eyes.’ Very recently, unusual research into brain activity just before death offers clues about why such experiences occur. An analysis of brain activity […]