Research, Articles & Case Studies

April 5th, 2016

Gut bacteria regulate nerve fibre insulation

Mo Costandi
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Research suggests that gut bacteria may directly affect brain structure and function, offering new ways to treat multiple sclerosis and psychiatric conditions. The surprising new findings, published today in the journal Translational Psychiatry, provide what is perhaps the strongest evidence yet that gut bacteria can have a direct physical effect on the brain, and suggest that it may one day be possible to treat debilitating demyelinating diseases such as multiple sclerosis, and even psychiatric disorders, by altering the composition of the gut’s microbial menagerie in some way or another.

April 1st, 2016

Kraniosakralni Terapie

Helena Touskova
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CST and Upledger Institute in a Czech lifestyle magazine

March 31st, 2016

How the brain processes emotions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Neuroscientists identify circuits that could play a role in mental illnesses, including depression. A new study reveals how two populations of neurons in the brain contribute to the brain's inability to correctly assign emotional associations to events. Learning how this information is routed and misrouted could shed light on mental illnesses including depression, addiction, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder.

March 28th, 2016

A Sensitive Subject

Sonia Fernandez
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UCSB researchers catalog for the first time patterns of vibration on the skin of the hand that are part of how we sense the world through touch

March 24th, 2016

Sixth Sense: Science begins to Explain How We Sense Electric Fields

The Mind Unleased
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Scientists are starting to figure out what is going on inside our cells when we sense electrical fields.

March 22nd, 2016

Involvement of astrocytes in neurovascular communication

M. Nuriya*, H. Hirase
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Abstract: Neuroscientists suggest possible functional roles of astrocytes including astrocytic modulation of the vasculature.

March 14th, 2016

Astrocytes As the Main Players in Primary Degenerative Disorders of the Human Central Nervous System

Francisco Capani, Cecilia Quarracino, Roberto Caccuri and Roberto E. P. Sica
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Along the last years it has been demonstrated that non-neural cells play a major role in the pathogenesis of the primary degenerative disorders (PDDs) of the human central nervous system. In this mini review they summarize the astrocytic behavior in PDDs, with special consideration to the experimental observations where astrocytic pathology precedes the development of neuronal dysfunction.

March 8th, 2016

Complaining Is Terrible for You, According to Science

Jessica Stillman
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The article explains how complaining can harm your health.

March 1st, 2016

The Brain Waste-Disposal System May Be Enlisted to Treat Alzheimer and Other Brain Illnesses | An internal plumbing system rids the brain of toxic wastes. Sleep is when this cleanup ritual occurs

Maiken Nedergaard, Steven A. Goldman
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The human brain weighs only about three pounds, or roughly 2 percent of the average adult body mass.Yet its cells consume 20 to 25 percent of the body's total energy. In the process, inordinate amounts of potentially toxic protein wastes and biological debris are generated. Each day, the adult brain eliminates a quarter of an ounce of worn-out proteins that must be replaced with newly made ones, a figure that translates into the replacement of half a pound of detritus a month and three pounds, the brain's own weight, over the course of a year.

Read more:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brain-s-waste-disposal-system-may-be-enlisted-to-treatalzheimer-s-and-other-brain-illnesses/

March 1st, 2016

Feeding in the NICU: A Perspective from a Craniosacral Therapist

Quraishy, Karyn
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Abstract: Completing full feedings is a requirement for discharge for babies in the NICU. interaction between the nerves and the muscles of the jaw, tongue, and the soft palate is required for functional sucking and swallowing. Jaw misalignment, compressed nerves, and misshapen heads can interfere with these interactions and create feeding difficulties. craniosacral therapy (CST) is a noninvasive manual therapy that is perfect for the fragile population in the NICU. CST can be used as a treatment modality to release fascial restrictions that are affecting the structures involved in feeding, thereby improving feeding outcomes.

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