Research articles

'I see red' or I saw red, is one of those sayings that people use when they are angry. Red has long been associated with heightened arousal or warnings. Think stop lights and...

Could there really be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Yeah I know, it sounds weird right. But research into dietary sources of treatment for ADHD have found that...

Back in March of 2015.., brain researcher Li-Huei Tsai of MIT in Cambridge bathed Alzheimer’s suffering mice in 40Hz Gamma flickering light for a hour a day. To her disbelief,...

Dopamine is well known as the 'reward' neurochemical as we get a boost of it when we have an experience worthy of praise or pleasure. Research on dopamine's role in the body also...

If only there was a pill that allowed you to eat whatever you want and still be healthy and not get overweight. Well.., there just might be. And it might be simpler than you...

Another score for our friend light! It's not new to anyone that sunlight exposure is good for health and wellbeing and is responsible for most of the vitamin D production in our...

Forgetting on purpose... What???... Research on patients with epilepsy whom had electrodes temporarily implanted near specific regions of the brain show that when we purposely...

Sight and Vision are often compared to a movie camera that records a scene. Light effects the sensor (rods and cones of the eye) and the information is sent to the microcomputer...

One of the fascinating and enjoyable aspects of photic stimulation using stroboscopic light machines like the roXiva RX1 is the depth of colour, patterns and kaleidoscopic and...

Studies of patients with tiny electrodes implanted in their brains for purposes of seizure study and control, have shown a unique relationship between Theta brainwaves (4-8Hz)...

Of course it can you say? Well it's been hard to prove because most tests have introduced inaccuracies into the equation and have therefore been inconclusive. We know animals can...

More evidence of treating Alzheimer's with brainwave entrainment? I've seen more and more of this recently. The findings aren't new though. And it ties in with the research...

One of the challenges of measuring brain activity in order to get an accurate reading suitable for medical interventions for neurological or psychological conditions is that the...

Yes that's right, they are a thing. It's called Frisson. Like a type of synaesthesia where one sense becomes represented by another. For example sounds seen as colours in the...

Even in cases like autism where social withdrawal is common. It's true that when you feel good, you want to share that feeling with others. By using light sensitive nerve cells...

It's tempting to think that pleasure leads to happiness, but in many cases that is not true. Just look at those who use a drug to induce pleasure and how over time their ability...

Interesting.., so research shows that as a problem either socially or personally gets solved, we tend to make what is included in the problem bigger and therefore not really...

As medical science gains knowledge and ability at a rate unthought of half a century ago, our life expectancy extends further and further. At least physically that is true. What...

Most people with a basic knowledge of nutrition and most doctors now have only positive things to say about detoxing the body to remove toxins that build up over time. In some...

Most learning if not all, is regulated by risk and reward. Almost every behaviour is either to gain pleasure or avoid pain. It makes total sense from an evolutionary perspective...

This is some cool research. Of the various types of brainwaves we experience on a daily basis, beta waves (12 – 38 cycles per second approximately) are mostly present during...

BE CAREFUL WHO YOU LISTEN TO... Ever found yourself finishing someone's...______? (sentence) Recent research shows that the rate at which someone talks effects the brain of those...

The red end of the light spectrum has a wavelength that starts at about 620nm (nano metres) and goes to about 750nm. Higher than that and it turns in to non visible light called...

It's a commonly held belief that as we age that we lose the ability to regenerate cells and tissues in our bodies and mind. In this extended research, healthy adults in the 60-90...

Revising learned information sooner than about 3.5 hours can negatively effect recall and change the memory itself. Interesting.So overlearning, doing 'all nighters' or trying...

This is kind of cool. We know that trees breathe.. They have a respiration cycle that is similar but opposite in effect to us. We inhale a mix of gases.., absorb the oxygen..,...

That may sound like a strange question but bear with me. How do you get good at something? You practice it. How do you improve the quality of your deep sleep Delta states? By...

Haha, well almost... What this research has found is that there are predictable patterns of Gamma waves present not only during the successful coding of new information.., but...

And as little as 15 minutes of exercise is enough! Cool; I think I can manage that. Haha Just 15 minutes of exercise straight after learning is enough to create a significant...

This is part freaky in the sense that these experiments could actually become conscious.., and part exciting for the same reason. Using stem cells scientists have grown mini...

Cool to see just how much Gamma plays a role in our brain function. This study was done with people with electrodes already implanted for study and regulation of epilepsy. The...

The studies they do, lol. It seems even flies get friend zoned and depressed. 🙂 This study was done by having male flies rejected as potential mating partners by female flies....

It seems that there is a common observable effect in the patterns of brainwaves in people with Autism. Alpha waves have been measured before in studies using people both with and...

This research is a lesson in being more relaxed about learning, memory and skill acquisition. While studying the brainwave states of people doing memory tasks by typing numbers...

Researchers have found an interesting and useful fact about stimulating the brain. This particular study is using probes actually implanted in the brain but the findings are...

Not all sleep is equal. And this research could be vital to helping people with age related mental decline. Research shows that deep non REM sleep activates brain activity that...

The slowest of brainwave activity of less than 1Hz (1 pulse per second or slower) seems from recent studies to be able to influence brain cells near by without any connection...

There are a number of products out there claiming that RED LEDs or glow lamps (usually above 620nm wavelength) are a good way of lighting your house or a bedroom without...

And why is that relevant to roXiva RX1 use... The attached article is unrelated to brainwave entrainment (BWE) but the implications are valid. It shows the results of a blood...

Light therapy has long been used to attempt to help people with both mental and physical challenges. SAD lamps are now in common use to treat depression and studies have shown...

Haha, that got your attention. And that's what this research is about. It seems that what we consider to be a laser like focus is close to impossible and for good reasons. The...

Here's another interesting and almost alarming example of how too much light at night can have a negative effect on health. [NOTE: Although this study correctly identifies that a...

Interesting article here that proposes that all physical and non physical effects of change and life are in a constant sine wave type of movement. From our heartbeat and other...

Studies of adults and children show that there is a change in which sense is the default one used when recalling what was previously heard. Below the age of 10, it seems that...

Thinking about future challenges to a goal in most cases will actually minimise the chances you'll give up on that goal. There's an effect in Psychology called 'Action Crisis'....

Measuring people with fMRI scientists have shown that brain activity is suppressed when we touch ourselves as opposed to being touched by others. This suppression starts as early...

It is well established in the scientific community that memories are replayed and consolidated during sleep. In particular during our deepest non-REM stages of sleep. During this...

[Which happens to be the main frequency of the hybrid session called HAPPY]   So many people have contacted me to thank me for this session alone, so I know from experience...

A discussion on approach motivation.   A very interesting piece of research with potential uses in helping to lower stress or increase motivation with brainwave entrainment....

Recent studies using mice and specific learning tasks have shown that when certain brain wave frequencies fall out of sync and lack coordination, the result is an inability to...

This study was done with biofeedback rather than BWE but the implications are the same. The participants received 15 sessions of 15-30 minutes of Alpha/Theta brain training. The...

Forgive me for having a bit of a negative rant here... I don't usually share anything science related that I disagree with but this one I will because it's setting up a focus in...

Pretty cool use of EEG signals... Scientists are getting close to perfecting software that can turn brainwaves into speech. By calibrating a persons basic speech pattern such as...

The field of Necro-neuroscience (study of brain activity just before and after death) is a very niche field. This particular finding shows continuing Alpha brain activity 10...

From binaural beats and isochronic tones to photic light machines and Audio Visual brainwave entrainment (AVE) devices, the use of brainwave entrainment (BWE) has many claims...

This is soo cool... Using an implanted neural detector and decoder; paralysed volunteers are able to send emails to their friends, play music on youtube and buy products online....

This latest research backs up the idea that Alzheimer's may be a result of less blood flow in the brain. This may be the real reason that the plaques commonly talked about as...

This study paper shows an experiment done with children (screened for safety concerns) to see if performance in mental tasks including memory, attention and other factors could...

Note: We do not recommend the use of any brainwave or audio visual entrainment device with young children without their doctors permission. This study backs up previous ones that...

Although drug induced trance states have been around for thousands of years.., there are a number of non drug induced practices that have been around that long also.  ...

EEG studies and measurements of highly creative people have shown a consistently high level of Alpha brain activity compared to people who according to recognised creativity...

Typical current ways of measuring brainwaves have limitations. Electrodes on the outside of the skull cannot accurately measure past the 'noise' of the brain surface to measure...

Modern use of flickering light has the advantage of precise and controllable fast reaction LED's. But the history of the fascination with flicker induced visual hallucinations is...

This research paper is a heavy read so don't bother unless you like this stuff but this is quite a cool development. I will summarise it here. The great thing about laser light...