ThinkBirth

The environment in which we live and move and have our being is critical to our physical, mental, spiritual and social functioning. More an...

I always enjoy Maria Popover's links and articles. Her Blog  has fascinating and often obscure articles which are relevant to my inter...

In this powerful and informative video, Dr. Fred Travis, Director, Center for Brain, Consciousness, and Cognition in Fairfield, Iowa, explai...

An article on the Bioethics Forum highlighted the way that medical jargon and a 'scientific' approach can be used to obscure ethical...

The placenta is an ignored organ in birth films.  The following film is beautiful, but the cord is cut early and there is no placenta!...

Fascinating read Richard L. Doty is director of the University of Pennsylvania's Smell and Taste Center. His awards include the US Na...

Cognition in pregnancy and motherhood: prospective cohort study -- Christensen et al. 196 (2): 126 -- The British Journal of Psychiatry Ba...

Dopamine, a chemical with a key role in setting people's moods, could have a much wider-ranging impact on their everyday lives, research...

Optogenetics: controlling brain cells with lasers New Scientist Story 7th January 2010 by Ewen Callaway http://www.newscientist.com/arti...

A two-year study involving five independent research laboratories in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands has found up to 232 toxic...

A great reason to surround ourselves with people we feel good with! Which of course, has implications for birthing women. Midwives have to ...

This study is interesting as it provides an insight into the midwifery maxim first articulated by Ina May Gaskin "fix the mind, fix the...

"Hypnosis has a "very real" effect that can be picked up on brain scans, say Hull University researchers. An imaging study o...

The first smell you associate with an object is given privileged status in the brain. Yaara Yeshurun and colleagues at the Weizmann Instit...

Laws protect girls from genital surgery but parents wanting to circumcise boys can "go around willy-nilly chopping up bits of their son...

In an article in the Journal PAIN (2005) 114 303-309 Lang et al had this to say: Abstract Patients are often prepared for procedural di...

A mind movie is a visualisation tool that enables a person to provide multisensory input and provide positive suggestions to the subconscio...