BACK
ISSUES December 2011 Full December
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How to Soothe Your
Frazzled Mind There seems to be no
escaping stress. Even the good
things in life can stress you
out! (After all, "desserts"
spelled backward is
"stressed.") You may think that
the best way to reduce stress
is through relaxation (e.g.
yoga, meditation), but
apparently that is NOT
true...... Read
on.... *********************************************************** November 2011 Full November
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Neurons Are Not
the Only Fruit I love it when science
is arrogant and then has to
eat its words!
Remember the notions that 85%
of DNA is junk? Or that the
earth is the centre of the
universe?
Neuroscience has a big
mis-hypothesis too....'Neurons
make up only 15% of our brain
cells, the remaining 85% is
packing material.' This turns
out to be hugely wrong. Read
on....
*********************************************************** October 2011 Full October
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What
Rats
Taught Neuroscientists
About Love
Did you
know that the dark mysteries
of our love affairs have been
illuminated by the love lives
of rats, mice and monogamous
prairie voles?
Neuroscientist
Kelly Lambert's recent
article is such an enjoyable
romp (I mean, read) that I
am reproducing it here in
its entirety.
Read on....
*********************************************************** September 2011 Full September
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How
Stress Can Lead to Alzheimers
& Parkinson's Disease The
idea that stress may figure
into neurodegenerative
diseases is relatively new.
Researchers have catalogued
the effect of stress on
numerous psychological
conditions, including
depression and chronic
anxiety. Although the notion
that our high-pressure jobs
and hectic lives might be
doing additional damage could
be worrisome, stress is at
least something we can
theoretically control. That
is, trying to relax might be a
first step toward raising the
chances of keeping your brain
free of disease in old age. Read on....
*********************************************************** August
2011 Full August
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Why
Speaking Another Language is
Good for Your Brain Many of you have (or
are still) spending your
Summer holidays outside your
own country. This probably
means that you have been
trying to speak a few words of
the local lingo....probably
with mixed reactions, but
probably lots of memorable fun
too. Speaking different
languages has always been
something I've enjoyed, and
the motivation (plus an
abillity) to do so has been
invaluable when working and
living around the world. I
used to dread family beach
holidays - with my fair skin
and freckles I burned as soon
as the sun even looked at me.
But trying out my
school-French as a teenager on
(another beach) holiday in
Southern France, opened up a
whole new world to me by being
able to chat to locals (I
wrote about my langauge
adventures in a Dutch article
entitled 'Tien
voor Taal'). Thankfully,
trying to talk to locals is
something I've not stopped
doing :=) In recent years,
scientists have found that
being able to speak different
languages may actually
facilitate the development of
certain language and cognitive
skills. These aptitudes
include mental flexibility,
abstract thinking and working
memory, a type of short-term
memory essential for learning
and problem solving.Read on....
*********************************************************** June
2011 Full June
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An
Unfiltered Mind: How
Creativity Flows When Barriers
Are Down Science and the Arts
are full of highly creative
people whose personal
behaviour sometimes strikes
others as odd. Albert Einstein
picked up cigarette ends off
the street to get tobacco for
his pipe; Howard Hughes spent
entire days on a chair in the
middle of the supposedly
germ-free zone of his Beverly
Hills Hotel suite; the
composer Robert Schumann
believed that his musical
compositions were dictated to
him by Beethoven and other
dead composers from their
tombs; and Charles Dickens is
said to have fended off
imaginary urchins with his
umbrella as he walked the
streets of London. More
recently, we have seen Michael
Jackson's preoccupation with
nose surgery, Salvador
Dalí's affection for
dangerous pets and the
Icelandic singer Björk
dressed for the Oscars as a
swan. It isn't just the
average person-on-the-street
who perceives highly creative
individuals as eccentric.
These individuals often see
themselves as different and
unable to fit in. The latest
findings in brain imaging,
creativity research and
molecular biology suggest that
these perceptions are not just
based on a few anecdotal
accounts of "weird" scientists
and artists. In fact,
creativity and eccentricity
often go hand in hand, and
researchers now believe that
both traits may be a result of
how the brain filters incoming
information. Even in the
business world, there is a
growing appreciation of the
link between creative thinking
and unconventional behaviour,
with increased acceptance of
the latter. Read
on....
*********************************************************** May
2011 Full May
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When
Your Eyes Deceive: The Power
of Optical Illusions Illusions help us to
see things that do not match
physical reality. For
scientists they are very
important in the understanding
of the neural mechanisms of
perception and cognition. Here
are some of the Greatest
Optical Illusions of All Time,
with the science explanation
in so far as it is known, plus
a couple of new 'modern day'
illusions. Enjoy! Read
on.....
*********************************************************** April
2011 Full April
2011 pdf newsletter
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Day-Dreaming:
What Happens in the Brain? 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 to
be essential to generating our
sense of self, suggesting that
daydreaming plays a crucial
role in who we are and how we
integrate the outside world
into our inner lives. Read
on.....
*********************************************************** March
2011 Full March
2011 pdf newsletter
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Putting the Body
Back Into Body-Mind-
Spirit
Within the healing world we
so often get used to
focussing on the mind and
spirit that we tend to
forget about the body....We
know that psychological
problems can produce
physical symptoms in the
form of psychosomatics, for
example, that mental stress
can give you headaches, an
upset stomach or even heart
problems. But we often
forget to appreciate that
the influence also runs in
the other direction-that
changes in your body can
profoundly affect your
mental state. Read
on....
*********************************************************** February
2011 Full February
2011 pdf newsletter
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How Your
Brain is Helped by
Fruitiness and the Spice
of Life
We know that there
are certain foods that are
supposed to be good for our
brain health, but did you
know that some spices also
have been found to help your
little grey cells grind more
effectively?
Come with me on this month's
journey to explore how a bit
of fruitiness and the spice
of life can help your brain
function better and
longer...and then try to
resist a breakfast of horny
goat weed and blueberries! Read
on....
*********************************************************** January
2011 Full January
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How
Dogs Can Teach Us About
New Year's Resolutions
We Humans like to
think that we have much more
self-discipline than other
animals. We know how to set
goals- losing 5 kilos,
starting our own
businesses-and then we
resist temptations and
plough through difficulties
to achieve them. We are far
from perfect at this talent,
but in most of our minds
there is no question that
our powerful self-control is
one of the things that sets
us apart from more lowly
animals. Or is it.....? Read
on....
*********************************************************** December
2010 Full December
2010 pdf newsletter
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How
A
Healing
Session
Works
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 a range of
emotions, recall
childhood memories,
and let go of deeply
held (psychological
and/or emotional)
pain. The combination
of energy and
psychotherapy is a
powerful one. A recent
article by
psychiatrist Jonathan
Shedler was so
outstandingly clear
about why
psychotherapy works,
that I have reproduced
it here with only
slight modifications.
Read
on...
*********************************************************** November
2010 Full November
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Faking
It: The Hidden Psychological
Costs of Wearing Designer
Knock-Offs Walking through
Amsterdam city centre on any
given day, it always strikes
me how many women (and men
also, I hasten to add, this is
Amsterdam after all) seem to
be carrying Louis Vuitton
bags. Are they all earning
such good money? (And are they
doing it legally?). With this
thought in mind, I came across
a series of research articles
about how polishing your
self-image with counterfeit
goods may lead to lying,
cheating and cynicism. Read
on....
*********************************************************** October
2010 Full October
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Ecstasy Drug Helps Win
the Fight Over PTSD
Agony
The drug
"ecstasy" is known as
a potent (and illegal)
way of enhancing your
senses and boosting
your mood, and is
especially popular in
dance clubs. A study
just published in the
Journal of
Psychopharmacology
suggests that when
coupled with
psychotherapy, the
drug might also be an
effective treatment
for post traumatic
stress disorder.
*********************************************************** September
2010 Full September
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The
Paradox of Willpower
If you have
ever wondered about the
fine balance between
Willpower and
Willingness then you are
going to like this
latest bit of research.
For example,
willingness is a core
concept of addiction
recovery programs-and a
paradoxical one.
Twelve-step programs
emphasise that addicts
cannot will themselves
into healthy
sobriety-indeed, that
ego and self-reliance
are often a root cause
of their problem. Yet
recovering addicts must
be willing. That is,
they must be open to the
possibility that the
group and its principles
are powerful enough to
trump a compulsive
disease.
It's a tricky
concept for many and must
be taken on faith. But now
there may be science to
back it up. Read on...
*********************************************************** August
2010 Full August
2010 pdf newsletter
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Was
Michelangelo
a
Secret
Neuro
Geek?
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 Michelangelo
really a secret neuro geek? I'll leave it up to
you to decide if these
neuroscientists were on
holiday or if they need to go
on one! Read on.... *********************************************************** July
2010
No On the Border
this month - Summer break
*********************************************************** June
2010 Full June
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How
Estrogen Can Lead to
Addiction 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. Read on....
*********************************************************** May
2010 Full May
2010 pdf newsletter
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How
Mobile Phones Could
Provide a Breakthrough
for Alzheimer's
Mobile
phones could
actually help your
mental health?
What is
Jayne on about now?!
I always
like it in science
when there are two
completely opposite
effects reported. It
reminds me not to
get too
black-and-white
about things being
'good' for us or
'bad' for us. Read
on.....
*********************************************************** April
2010 Full April
2010 pdf newsletter
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Going out
with a Bang!
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. Read
on....
*********************************************************** March
2010
Stop
Thinking - And Avoid
Crumbling Under
Pressure!
Have you ever
frozen under pressure?
Have you
inexplicably screwed
up just when it
mattered the most?
Maybe you
were about to give a
presentation and
suddenly you
couldn't remember
your words. Or you
went into an exam
and your mind went
blank. Or maybe you
play a musical
instrument and
suddenly your
fingers no longer
knew what they were
supposed to do.
All these
examples can happen
when we choke under
pressure. But did
you know that this
happens when you
actually think too
much...? A surge of
recent research can
help us to leave
these
self-sabotaging
tendencies behind. Read
on......
*********************************************************** February
2010 The Brain on
Chocolate? Chocolate
on the Brain? Did
you know that chocolate
can help your heart? This
makes it good for
Valentine's day!
Read
about how research drop
outs helped advance
medical science because
they could not resist the
call of
the cocoa bean.
A
study on elderly Dutch men
has shown that chocolate
can extend your life. You
can live longer and enjoy
living longer :=)
If you
sometimes crave
chocolate, then
it may not be because you
are deficient in
nutrients, but are
experiencing part of a
'complex bio-psycho-social
paradigm' (whoah, now that
sounds mighty scientific).
And,
finally, they do say "One
man's meat can be another
man's poison." Find out
what chocolate
can do to dogs.
After reading this you may
want to eat your
Valentine's chocolates for
yourself rather than share
them with Fido, Fikkie and
Rover.
*********************************************************** January
2010
How Does Meditation
Work at Cell Level?
Many
of you may be familiar
with the Dalai Lama's
interest in neuroscience
(http://www.jaynejubb.com/julyarticle.htm).
At the 2005
Society for
Neurosciencemeeting,
the Dalai Lama explained
that
although
he
meditates
for
four
hours
every
morning,
it
is
hard
work.
If
neuroscientists
could
find
a
way
to put electrodes in his
brain and create the
same outcome he gets
from meditating, he
would be an eager
volunteer......
*********************************************************** December
2009
Can You Lose Weight
Through Sleeping?
Yes
I know it sounds too
good to be true:
'Snooze While You
Lose' but recent
research indicates
that there is a
connection between how
much you weigh and the
amount of sleep you
get per night. Read
on.....
*********************************************************** November
2009
Born to Be Kind? Why do
people do good things?
Is kindness hardwired into
the brain?
Or does this tendency
arise from experience?
Read
on..... ***********************************************************
October 2009 Full October
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Perfection, but at
What Price? 'Good,
better, best
Never let it rest
Until your good is better
And your better is your
best'.
This little rhyme was
something many of you will
remember and have
engrained since childhood.
Perfectionism was always
encouraged to be something
very noble, but what price
do we pay for striving for
this particular goal? Read
on.... *********************************************************** September
2009 Full September
2009
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Little
Words Mean a Lot: The Secret
Life of Pronouns We all know that the
words we write or speak are an
expression of our inner
thoughts and personalities.
But you probably didn't know
that there are unique insights
to be had in the use of the
little words such as I, you,
the, we, & but. Find out
what is really lurking in YOUR
small print Read
on....
*********************************************************** August 2009 No On The
Border this month - summer
holiday break
*********************************************************** July 2009 Full July
2009
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Can
Healing Therapies Go Global? This is
down-to-earth practical stuff
and yet highly inspirational!
You have probably
heard about the heroic
exploits of Medecins Sans
Frontieres (Doctors Without
Borders), but did you know
that there are some innovative
healing therapy programs that
are repairing the psyches of
civil war survivors and
depressed mothers in
developing countries? Read
on.... *********************************************************** June 2009 Full June
2009
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Does a
Good Laugh Really Help?
We all know that we feel much
better after a really good,
stomach-muscle-aching belly
laugh, but is laughter really
the best medicine? Read
on....
***********************************************************
May 2009 Full May 2009 pdf newsletter
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Is
Sitting Behind Your
Computer Helping or
Harming Your Brain?
I love technology - and at
times I absolutely hate it!
Having been chained to my
computer for the last few
months (unfortunately I'm not
exaggerating) I find myself
getting nervous, irritable and
just plain unhappy. The tasks
that need to be done -
crunching numbers for my
research project, writing
articles, answering emails etc
etc - all are necessary, and I
do so appreciate being able to
communicate quickly.
But then....I just step
outside into our lovely garden
or hop on my bike to go do
some shopping, and a sense of
relaxation comes over me. I
start to question what on
earth I am doing spending so
much time behind the computer
when it feels, to put it
bluntly, so unnatural.
So I decided to go on a hunt
for what is known about the
effects of the computer on our
brains. Read
on.... *********************************************************** April 2009 Full April
2009
pdf newsletter download Why It
Hurts To Be Separated From a
Loved One It's no fun to be
away from your loved one. For
many years studies have
suggested that long-term
separation from a romantic
partner can lead to increased
anxiety and depression as well
as problems such as sleep
disturbances. Now researchers
are identifying the
neurochemical mechanisms
behind these behavioural and
physiological effects. Read
on....
March 2009 Full March
2009
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Mother's Life Experience
Affects Her Child's Memory Scientists have just
published groundbreaking
research which revolutionises
our understanding of how
nature and nurture can combine
to regulate not only the
health of subsequent
generations but also the
incidence of disease. Read
this
month's article.
February 2009 Full February
2009
pdf newsletter download Use Your
Hands! They Keep You Happy
& Healthy Have the changes in
our lifestyle over the last
century contributed to us
being less happy and more
depressed? We are clearly
using our hands and brains
differently (less!) than our
more physically-working
ancestors did a hundred years
ago, but is there brain
evidence that using our hands
makes us happier? There
certainly is....So before you
pick up your knitting, start
sticking in holiday photos or
begin making biscuits, read
this month's article. *********************************************************** January 2009 Full January
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Shock!
Horror! Psychotherapy Beats
Anti-Depressants It always raises a
smile when I read that, on
some front, science has caught
up with energy therapies.
So now imagine my
deep belly chuckle when I read
that pyschotherapy has now
been proved not only to work
as well as antidepressants in
treating depression, but that
its effects are longer
lasting. (The exact statement
was: "Studies have shown that
cognitive therapy is as
efficacious as antidepressant
medication at treating
depression, and it seems to
reduce the risk of relapse
even after its continuation.")
So join me this
month in looking at the latest
research into depression, what
it is, how it is treated and
how studies have helped show
that treating the symptoms
(i.e. with pills) does NOT
give long-lasting effects. Read on..... *********************************************************** December 2008 Full December
2008
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Why Getting a Good
Night's Sleep Helps You
Learn Better As we hurtle towards
the shortest day of the year,
we are probably more
confronted with sleep now than
at other times of the year.
With the shorter days, longer
nights and dark mornings you
may think that you feel like
hibernating under the duvet
and just sleeping....but
exciting findings in recent
years have shown that while we
sleep our brain is anything
but inactive. Read
on...
*********************************************************** November 2008 Full November
2008
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The Brain Biology
of Brilliance You probably know
that intelligence is measured
by IQ, but what makes somebody
a genius? The development of
neuro-imaging has enabled
scientists to start studying
regions in the brain to
unearth the biology of
brilliance. And if you have
ever wondered if size really
does matter (?!) then read
on....
*********************************************************** October 2008 Neuroscience
Research into Emotions
& Empathy This month I've
discarded the usual format
because I need your help! I am looking for
volunteers - males &
females between the ages of 18
and 65 - to help me with my
Neuroscience research study
between now and January. Would
you like to take part? I can
promise you it will be very a
interesting experience,
you'll enjoy it - and you will
even get paid for it.
All the details
about the entire study,
background and criteria for
participation can be found on
the Dutch website http://www.jaynejubb.com/moebius/index.html.
Should you wish to participate
in English all the tests,
letters and information are
also available in English. You
will, however, need to be a
Dutch resident in order to
participate though.
*********************************************************** September 2008 Full September
2008
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Why Does Science
Have Two Sets of Laws?
The mystery of why we need two
sets of rules to describe the
world can be traced back to an
experiment that was first
carried out almost a hundred
years ago in 1909 by British
physicist Geoffrey Ingram
Taylor. This was the birth of
Quantum Mechanics. Even though
it is 'ancient', its results
are still the subject of much
controversy. It literally
shook the foundations of the
physics world, and it still
does! Read
on.... *********************************************************** August 2008 Full August
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How Life
Experience Chemically Coats
Your DNA and Shapes Your
Life We have known
intuitively for a long time
that our life experience is
part of who we are and shapes
who we become. An area of
genetics is now helping to
show that it does literally
form us: it alters the actual
shape of the DNA by allowing
'cling-on' molecules to attach
themselves. Read
on...
*********************************************************** July 2008 Full July
2008 pdf newsletter
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Person Can Make a
Difference: Scientific Proof Yes, okay, I
know you've heard it before
and have probably paid lip
service to it on several
occasions, but scientific
studies have been showing that
one person really can and does
make a difference.
Research has found
that when people within a
group share a common
experience of consciousness,
the effects can be detected
beyond the group itself and
even outside the building
where the individuals are
meeting. It would seem that
the inner experiences are
being carried through some
subtle conduit in a way that
is not restricted by the laws
of physics (or at least, the
laws as we currently
understand them!) or limited
to the immediate surroundings.
Read
on.... ***********************************************************
June 2008 Full
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2008 pdf newsletter
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The
Distance Between Us:
Cells Separated From
Body Remain Connected
To It Would
you expect a tissue sample -
like a DNA mouth swab done in
CSI - to still be connected to
its owner once it had been
taken?
Traditional, everyday
thinking, would suggest that
once tissue, skin, organs or
bones are removed from a
person, any connection with
those parts of the body should
no longer exist. Well, think
again! It appears that this is
definitely not the case. Read
on....
*********************************************************** May 2008 Full
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2008 pdf newsletter
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When Placebo Was More
Powerful Than Brain
Surgery I
am sure that you have all
heard of the 'placebo effect'
- the expectation of
improvement actually changing
the outcome. But did you know
that in 2004 an Italian study
found that the placebo effect
was actually more powerful
than brain surgery? Read
on....
***********************************************************
April 2008 Full April
2008 pdf newsletter
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Life
After Death: Scientists
Study This Last Frontier In
2001 Dutch cardiologist, Pim
van Lommel, created a stir in
mainstream medicine by
publishing hard core
scientific research into Life
After Death in the famous
medical journal 'The
Lancet'. Never before had such
a thorough study been done
into the experiences of people
who had been declared dead and
had then been resuscitated
back to life. Read
on....
***********************************************************
March 2008 Full
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2008 pdf newsletter
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Kiss
& Tell:
The Chemistry
of Kissing
Have you
ever really
liked someone,
yet when you
came to kiss
them it was more
a turn-off than
a turn-on?
Kissing - or
osculation it is
called
scientifically
(how
unromantic!) -
should unleash a
cocktail of
chemicals that
govern human
stress,
motivation,
social bonding
and sexual
stimulation. But is
kissing
necessary? And,
are you a
right-leaning
kisser or a
left-leaning
kisser? Read
on.... ***********************************************************
Ghost
Busting: The
Mystery of
Phantom Limb
Pain The
phenomenon of
'phantom limb'
has fascinated
me for years:
the strange
feeling that a
missing body
part is still
present and
attached to
the body even
when it has
been
amputated.
Energetically,
this has
always seemed
perfectly
logical. The
physical part
has been
removed but
the energy
field from
which it arose
and which
supported it
for years can
still be
present. Well
now (hooray)
neuroscience
is catching
up, and
catching on.
This is real,
exciting 'On
the Border'
stuff, so read on... *********************************************************** January 2008 Full January
2008 pdf newsletter
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Resolutions:
Two Sides To Every
Story Science
always seems to be
able to prove just
about anything!
First butter is good
for us, then it's
bad; coffee is bad
for the heart, then
it's good for
memory, cancer and
menopausal women.
Have you made any
resolutions for this
year? Do you still
have them, or have
they already been
packed away for
another year along
with the Christmas
decorations? Here
are some of the
latest surprising
scientific findings
on a few 'baddies'
to help you keep
from getting too
fanatical.
Remember, there
are two sides to every
story. Happy New Year! Read on.... *********************************************************** December 2007 Away on holiday in
Vietnam - no edition this
month
*********************************************************** November
2007 Full November
2007 pdf newsletter
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Create
Your Future: Remembering the
Past to Imagine the Future A rapidly growing
number of recent studies show
that imagining the future
depends on much of the same
brain machinery that is needed
for remembering the past.
These findings have led to the
concept of the prospective
brain - an idea that a crucial
function of the brain is to
use stored information to
imagine, simulate and predict
possible future events. Great
news for those of us who want
to consciously create our
futures! Read
on.... ***********************************************************
Mirror
Neurons Reflect How We Learn
& Empathise
How did you first learn to
stick your tongue out? When
someone starts yawning do you
start to yawn too? When
watching a film, do you share
in the joys and pain of the
characters? The answers
to what goes on in your brain
are in ‘mirror neurons’. Read
on....
Rhythm
and Blues: Biological Clock
Depends on Light We’ve all felt the
effects of the biological
clock – jet lag when returning
from a trip, and winter blues
when the days are grey and
short – but the biological
clock really does exist. From
the energetic perspective, the
fact that we are ‘beings of
light’ (however New Agey that
might sound) is not
surprising. Yet the fact that
science is now increasingly
able to demonstrate just HOW
our dependence on light
affects so much of our well
being is fascinating. Read
on....
August 2007
Full August
2007
pdf newsletter download Epilepsy:
A Modern Day Twist to an
Ancient Remedy
One of the major modern day
quandaries in the treatment of
epilepsy is that about 30-40%
of patients become immune to
the medicines that they are
given to combat the seizures.
Recently, modern day research
methods applied to an age old
remedy have provided exciting
new avenues into this
frustrating medical problem. Read on.... ***********************************************************
If
You Don't Use It - You'll
Lose It! Buddhists
Monks give Insights Into
Happiness Set Point and
Obsessive-Compulsive
Behaviour
That the thoughts we think can
change the way we are and our
health is nothing new to those
of us involved in energy work
and self-development. But have
you considered HOW it actually
works? ‘Virtual piano
playing’, Buddhist monks, and
patients with
obsessive-compulsive disorder
have provided some exciting
clues. Read
on....
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June 2007 Full June
2007 pdf newsletter
download
It's Proven! Friendship IS
Really Good For You A landmark study
suggests that women respond to
stress with a cascade of brain
chemicals that causes them to
make and maintain friendships
with other women. It's a
stunning find that has turned
5 decades of stress research
upside down. Friendship has
also been shown to reduce
blood pressure, heart rate and
cholesterol, helping us to
live longer and live better.
Diet and exercise will only
get you so far it seems....
:=)
So gentlemen, if you
are wondering why your
girlfriend or wife really
needs a 'Girls' Night Out'
then click
here to read on. And
ladies, when your husband or
boyfriend want to go out with
the boys, it could be actually
be help him reduce the risk of
heart disease....click
here to read further.
