May 29, 2015Kay Tye, Ph.D. By examining the neural circuits involved in emotional processing, scientists are gaining a clearer picture of how the brain learns to associate certain environmental cues with positive or negative emotions. Such research could help guide...
Authors: Ron Philipchalk; Dieter MuellerNovember 09, 2006 The neuroscience of speaking in tongues: The New York Times has covered a recently published brain-scanning study of five individuals who ‘speak in tongues’ – an experience also known as glossolalia –...
Published in TIME MagazineLIFE & STYLE SectionAug. 16, 2013 When you sing, musical vibrations move through you, altering your physical and emotional landscape. Group singing, for those who have done it, is the most exhilarating and transformative of all. It takes...
With evidence growing that training the mind or inducing specific modes of consciousness can have beneficial health effects, scientists have sought to understand how these practices physically affect the body. A new study by researchers in Wisconsin, Spain, and France...
James L. Hall Jr. A number of studies in the past 10 years have provided evidence that connections between a person’s mind, body and spirit have the capacity to affect physical health. Some of the results: A researcher at the University of California at San...
