by Neil Bossenger | Aug 13, 2012 | Research, Spinewave Bulletin
Children who are mixed-handed, or ambidextrous, are more likely to have mental health, language and scholastic problems in childhood than right or left-handed children, according to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics. What is “normal”? Normal...
by Neil Bossenger | Jun 27, 2012 | Research, Spinewave Bulletin
This image of a living human brain, taken during surgery, won the 2012 Wellcome Trust Award for biomedical photography. Robert Ludlow, UCL Institute of Neurology, London; Wellcome Trust. “Through the skill of the photographer, we have the privilege of seeing...
by Neil Bossenger | Jun 21, 2012 | Research, Spinewave Bulletin
Hemisphericity is a functional problem created through exhausting the brain’s energy resources in an unbalanced way. It creates one-sided problems or neurological manifestations, like OCD or speech deficits, that tend to have laterality in either the left or...
by Neil Bossenger | Jan 28, 2012 | Research, Spinewave Bulletin
Hemispatial neglect is a strange condition in which brain damage, despite normal vision, results in complete neglect of the left side of one’s world. The following could happen in a person suffering from hemispatial neglect: He or she will walk over to the right...
by Neil Bossenger | Oct 19, 2011 | Case of the month, Cases, Spinewave Bulletin, Symptoms
I have been experiencing a raft of unusual symptoms including sensations in my face, nausea, irritable bowel, tinnitus, a large numbers of floaters in my eyes and more recently, constant pins and needles in my feet and sometimes my hands. My husband is a chiropractor,...