How often do you get in touch with your inner self? The Nightlife is going all new-age to explore the practice and benefits of meditation but, you can leave the crystals and the incense in the cupboard. Tonight we're looking [...]
For thousands of years, humans have understood breathing has a powerful influence over our physiological and psychological wellbeing. But many people still find it difficult to understand the link between breathing and its impact on our body's physiology and stress [...]
A backlash against pop neuroscience is now in full swing. The latest, and most cutting, critique yet is “Brainwashed: The Seductive Appeal of Mindless Neuroscience,” by Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld. The book, which slams dozens of inconclusive studies that [...]
Brains are in demand. Once the largely exclusive province of neuroscientists and neurologists, the brain has now entered the popular mainstream. As a newly minted cultural artifact, the brain is portrayed in paintings, sculptures, and tapestries and put on display [...]
A study from Harvard Medical School researchers shows that the risk of having a heart attack is significantly higher following an outburst of anger — the more intense the outburst, the higher the risk.The most intense angry outbursts—those that qualify as [...]
The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence Rabindranath Tagore
Research into the comparative size of the frontal lobes in humans and other species has determined that they are not - as previously thought - disproportionately enlarged relative to other areas of the brain, according to the most accurate and [...]
Deaths from neurological disease have increased dramatically in Western countries, especially in the U.S., and the onset of disease is earlier during the working-age years, reported Colin Pritchard, a neurology professor at Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom, along with [...]
Researchers found a sharp rise in the deaths from dementia and other neurological disease in under-74s, and believe that the figures cannot be explained away by the fact we live longer. Instead the “epidemic” is down to the environmental and [...]