by Neil Bossenger | Jun 29, 2016 | Spinewave Bulletin
Persistent pain: It’s the same as if you ride a bike a lot, you get better at riding a bike. Play the piano a lot, you get better at it. Send danger messages a lot, you get better at it. That’s an adaptation, and the same thing occurs in the brain....
by Neil Bossenger | May 18, 2015 | Research, Spinewave Bulletin
New research suggests that the synthetic steroids delivered by the female contraceptive pill can shrink certain regions of the female brain and could also be altering their function. Neuroscientists from the University of California took brain scans of 90 women who...
by Neil Bossenger | Apr 11, 2015 | Spinewave Bulletin
Dr Bruce Lipton dispels the myth that we only use 10% of our brain, and touches on the concept of hemisphericity in everyday life, maximising your function as a human being.
by Neil Bossenger | Jul 5, 2014 | Research, Spinewave Bulletin
Memory, from your earliest thoughts to today’s grocery list, is a complex process necessary for cognition. The ability to form long term memories requires changes in the synapses – the structures neurons use to transmit information. To better understand how...
by Neil Bossenger | May 26, 2014 | Spinewave Bulletin
Developing safe, targeted, and effective drugs for mental illnesses has increasingly become a struggle for the pharmaceutical industry. As a result, there has been a gradual withdrawal of research dollars from this area, despite the fact that globally, the mental...
