Proving the Patient-Doctor Brain Bond, Telepathically

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Proving the Patient-Doctor Brain Bond, Telepathically
By Mary Sawyers, Ivanhoe Health Correspondent

PORTLAND, Ore. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- You’ve heard of telepathy -- it’s when you can communicate with someone just by thinking about it. Now, a researcher in Seattle says her studies show that, at least for some people, it works.

Leanna Standish, ND, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at Bastyr University in Seattle, calls the phenomenon "distant neural signaling." She agrees it sounds kind of whacky, and she can’t explain why it works with some people and not others, but after several experiments, she’s convinced the phenomenon is real.

In one study, Standish recruited 30 pairs of volunteers who knew each other and in some cases were related. The pairs spent 10 minutes meditating together and were then sent to separate rooms 30 feet apart. The "sending" partner watched checkerboard patterns flicker on and off on a video monitor, while the "receiving" partner watched a static pattern. Both of the partners were hooked up to electroencephalograms (EEGs) to measure their brain activity.

When the pattern flickered, it triggered increased brain activity in the "sender." "What we were trying to see was if the increased brain activity in the sender would correspond with increased activity in the receiver," says Standish...cont'd

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