Showing posts with label paranormal. Show all posts
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17 November 2012

The Science of the Paranormal: Analyzing Brain Activity of Psychic Mediums


Researchers study the brain activity of psychic mediums using SPECT, Single-photon emission computed tomography, imaging to understand what is happening to them while under a trance.

Psychic mediums are have been popular since early civilization. They claim to communicate with the dead and bring back messages from the after world to loved ones still living.

Sometimes looked down upon as frauds and charlatans, they have a place in society as a means of coping with the loss of a loved one. Mediums appeal more to the spiritual side of life. There is no scientific basis that what they do is true or even real.