Feeling Go(o)d: The Physics of Emotion

Feeling Go(o)d: The Physics of Emotion
Even before she was chief of brain biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health, Candace Pert made a breakthrough discovery that changed the way scientists understand the mind-body connection. She found the opiate receptor, the mechanism by which a class of chemicals (peptides) alters the mind and...
December 8th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More

Left in the Dark

Left in the Dark
While a student at Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and preparing a short dissertation entitled ‘The Genetic Manipulation of Plants’ the subconscious seeds of a revolutionary new theory were sown in Tony Wright’s mind. Over the next 20 years a mixture of scientific curiosity and radical self-experimentation...
November 17th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More

God in the Brain

God in the Brain
Jack Hitt, from Wired Magazine, describes a scientist’s attempts to translate the mystery of religious experience into a materialistic theory of brain activity. Michael Persinger has a vision – the Almighty isn’t dead, he’s an energy field. And your mind is an electromagnetic map...
October 1st, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More

The Conscious Heart

The Conscious Heart
Rollin McCraty reveals the discovery that neural activity within the heart appears to influence our conscious perception, cognition, and emotional processing, which suggests that the traditional role attributed to the heart as the seat of our deepest emotions may be true after all.
September 29th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More

Popping pills – Cognitive enhancement

Popping pills – Cognitive enhancement
This article considers the controversial subject of cognitive enhancing dietary supplements and the potentially unjustified prejudices surrounding them in today’s society.
September 28th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More

Investigating Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow and CSF Movement Following Lysergic Acid Diethylamide

Investigating Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow and CSF Movement Following Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
Building on our EEG research, this study will use advanced neuroimaging technologies and techniques, arterial spin labelling with functional magnetic resonance imaging, to examine in great detail the effect of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) on local and regional blood and CSF movement.
August 7th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More

Investigating the Psychological Effects of THC and the Medical Potential of CBD

Investigating the Psychological Effects of THC and the Medical Potential of CBD
II Investigating the Psychological Effects of THC and the Medical Potential of CBD Dr. James Stone, Institute of Psychiatry, London Dr. Paul Morrison, Institute of Psychiatry, London Amanda Feilding, Beckley Foundation, Oxford Previous studies at the IoP with involving intravenous tetrahydrocannabinol...
August 7th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More

Identifying the Neurobiological Correlates of the Subjective Effects of Cannabis that Users Find Beneficial

Cannabis II Identifying the Neurobiological Correlates of the Subjective Effects of Cannabis that Users Find Beneficial Prof. David Nutt, University of Bristol Dr. Andrea Malizia, University of Bristol Amanda Feilding, Beckley Foundation, Oxford ‘Ultimately, there may be advantages to acknowledging...
August 7th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More
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