Neuropeptides as the Carries of Emotions The hypothalamus is relatively isolated from the “noise” (thoughts) of the cerebral cortex, so it can be utilized to identify subtle energy without alteration. The hypothalamus receives biochemical messages in response to information, or subtle energy that has been received by the body “antenna”. This interface of how subtle level energy is transformed into physiological signals is the ” the point of least understanding”. Dr. Candace Pert sees the connectedness of all aspects of our system from a biochemical perspective, concluding “brain and body make and receive the same messenger molecules in order...
Test subjects taking part in an 8-week program of mindfulness meditation showed results that astonished even the most experienced neuroscientists at Harvard University. The study was led by a Harvard-affiliated team of researchers based at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the team’s MRI scans documented for the very first time in medical history how meditation produced massive changes inside the brain’s gray matter. “Although the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day,” says study senior author Sara Lazar of the...
• 19 April 2008 • From New Scientist Print Edition. • Michael Reilly On 10 December 1996, neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor had a stroke when a blood vessel ruptured in her brain. Robbed of her memory, motor skills, even personality, she retreated into herself and dwelled primarily in her brain's right hemisphere. During the eight years to full recovery, she found ways to control her thoughts and rebuild her mind. She tells Michael Reilly why the stroke was the best thing that ever happened to her. What did the stroke do to you? Because the haemorrhage was in my cerebral cortex, it wiped out...