journalist, i've always been fascinated by the workings of the mind, and today i've come to royal holloway, university of london my brain before embarking on a six—week brain—altering course. i'm just taking a moment to settle into this posture. this is thorsten barnhofer, professor of clinical psychology at surrey university. he's currently running a study on the effects of mindfulness in managing stress and difficult emotions. he's also been looking into how mindfulness changes the actual structure of the brain itself, showing signs of this neuroplastic rewiring even after just a few weeks. and what makes mindfulness especially impactful is that by reducing stress, it allows even more plasticity to take place. but will it work on my brain? we're about to enter the fmri scanner to see what my brain looks like from the inside. i'm getting my brain scan before and after a period of doing just 30 minutes of meditation a day. hi, melissa. how are you? yeah, good. so all you need to do is just relax, try to keep still and look at the fixation cross. 0k. and it'll last for about 15 minutes. right, so that's quite a

according to academic research from royal holloway, university of london, in 2021, two of the four fatalend up attacking a child or an adult? it is a myriad of things. it is poor breeding, we don't have the right breeding, we don't have the right breeding regulations in the dog industry. we don't have very smart breeding regulations to ensure the dogs have been bred for the right things and to meet the demand. we have a certain amount of pet homes that have pets that look a certain way and we have other homes that need other types of working breeds to be bred. unfortunately the balance isn't right and people are breeding more dogs for supporting and working purposes and protection and working purposes and protection and they end up in family homes. equally, i don't think there is enough education out there for the public about what breeds they should be getting and what the breed needs. if you have a dog like fred, he needs a lot of mental stimulation, physical stimulation, needs a lot of mental stimulation, physicalstimulation, he needs a lot of mental stimulation, physical stimulation,