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Fainting goats are an excellent way to see how unhelpful reflexes caused by dysfunctional areas of the brain can interfere with normal day to day functioning. Fainting goats are native to Central America, and have a genetic change which means that their muscles stiffen as a reflex action when they are startled.  This is a reflex which is generally not helpful to them (poor things!) as everything stiffens up and they fall over. In a very ...

Do you know you have a neural signature? In fact, you have thousands of neural signatures! You have one for when you are at rest and letting your thoughts roam free. You have one for when you are choosing which foods to eat. You have one for when you are brushing your teeth. You even have one for when you wake up. These neural signatures are patterns of brain (electrical) activity in the brain. This activity moves through set and ...

If you saw someone having a seizure, wouldn’t it be great if you could do something to stop it? That person could then continue on with their day, rather than suffer and potentially end up in hospital?  The Exchange Breathing Method (EBM) is helping many people across the world to achieve this; and, with your help by taking part in some important research into this seizure first aid method, potentially many more people can now be helped ...