B.W. Cribb, PhD

Have you heard about bisphenol A (BPA)? Disturbingly, it not only affects the body organs but also has the capacity to rewrite the brain!

Who do you trust – really trust – to have your back in today’s world? For that matter, do you consider yourself to be trustworthy?

The ability to read another person's thoughts accurately or see into their memories or dreams is still a fairy-story, surely?

Stevenson collected over 2,000 detailed cases, mostly from India, and this is where his work turned to a different kind of evidence.

It seems that during both sleep and an induced unconscious state, the polarity of the direct current reverses, as measured in the brain.

If this theory is correct, then rational thought and sustained memory may be something animals picked up rather than developed by themselves

We all have it, a feeling that comes upon us without knowing why, telling us something is not going to work out or is too good to miss.

We either revert to choosing that which we already know, make a gut-based choice, or walk away without buying anything.

Is the mind of a creative genius different from yours or mine, or is there some trick that they employ which makes all the difference?

The concept and embodiment of this 'emotion' though, is broader than the recognition of suffering.

This week, instead of writing about mind, I have posted three videos.

Conscious perception has some strange quirks.

But as a species, are we really like this, or is pessimism uncalled for? Are we instead, seeing a tipping-point; a game changer in play?

So, just how effective are signs, symbols or pictograms for communicating information and how can we enhance their meaning?

In other words, the mind here, in the octopus, is cooperative, rather than based on the human picture of a hierarchical corporation.

Our subconscious mind latches onto data that accompanies any moment in time...and it gets tangled into our thinking process.

Scopolamine is odourless and tasteless. There is no way to know you have been dosed except for the effect.

This is a two-way street though: recording brain activity and sending triggers into the brain.

Peter tells me that the condition has helped him develop the attitude that even though it's difficult, he can do it.

This is a look at how body and brain chemistry affect the mind, and touches on what can be done when the result is less than satisfactory.