Are we immersing ourselves in toxic emotions, stirred by the media which are regulated by government elite? I was watching a particularly harrowing episode of a television adaptation last week, tears streaming down my face, fully engrossed in the moment of sexual and emotional torture when I stopped and switched it off. I could feel my pulse pounding, the tremble in my gut, my stress levels increasing with the story line. Excellent writing, certainly. Brilliant acting, most d

Most of us can detect subtle non-verbal cues that surround human and animal interactions, but are some of us more empathetic than others? Neuroscience research, in 1996, discovered the synergistic tendencies of neurons in the pre-motor cortex of macaque monkey brains (Marco Lacoboni, LA School of Medicine, University of California). By studying the active regions of the pre-motor cortex, Lacoboni found that neurons fired in the exact same way, whether the monkey was picking u