Gut microbes are part of the unconscious system regulating behavior. We are fundamentally dependent on a myriad of essential neurochemicals produced by microbes. Recent research has also suggested the gut microbiome may have a role in the development of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Research has found people with ASD have significantly higher numbers of Candida species in their intestines. Recent research has also suggested the gut microbiome may have a role in the development of autism.
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by John F. Golding, University of Westminster Motion sickness can be caused by a variety of motion environments and given a sufficiently provocative stimulus almost anyone can be made motion sick. More than two thousand years ago the Greek physician Hippocrates observed that ‘ sailing on the sea proves that […]
The sense of self and vestibular dysfunction In addition to the deficits in eye movement and postural reflexes that occur following vestibular dysfunction, there is convincing evidence that vestibular loss also causes cognitive and emotional disorders, some of which may be due to the reflexive deficits and the role that […]
One of the most shameful episodes in the history of medicine is the use of frontal lobotomies. Despite very vague evidence of their effectiveness – lobotomies were standard procedure through the US and Europe for around two decades, until the mid-1950s. Only in US, around 40,000 people underwent a procedure […]
Mit einem Tumor im Kopf Eine Hirnschädigung kann mitunter dazu führen, dass der Betroffene zum Straftäter wird. Kurz nach seinem 40. Geburtstag entwickelte M. plötzlich ein verstärktes Interesse für Pornografie – auch mit Kindern. Das war ungewöhnlich, denn zuvor hatte er keine pädophilen Neigungen gezeigt. Irgendwann begann er seine präpubertäre […]
It is a fact of neuroscience that everything we experience is a figment of our imagination. Although our sensations feel accurate and truthful, they do not necessarily reproduce the physical reality of the outside world. Of course, many experiences in daily life reflect the physical stimuli that send signals to […]
Cognitive Deficits in Compulsive Hoarding Compulsive hoarding is characterized by accumulation of an excessive number of objects due to an inability to discard things of little value. Researchers have only recently begun to study hoarding, and it was first defined as a mental disorder in 2013.It was not clear whether […]
Somatotype and constitutional psychology From Wikipedia Somatotype is a taxonomy developed in the 1940s, by American psychologist William Herbert Sheldon, to categorise the human physique according to the relative contribution of three fundamental elements, somatotypes, named after the three germ layers of embryonic development: the endoderm, (develops into the digestive […]
Jeder steckt in seinem Bewusstsein, wie in seiner Haut, und lebt unmittelbar nur in demselben: daher ist ihm von außen nicht sehr zu helfen. Denn die höchsten, die mannigfaltigsten und die anhaltendsten Genüsse sind die geistigen; diese aber hängen hauptsächlich von der geistigen Kraft ab. Denn was einer für sich selbst ist, was ihn in die Einsamkeit begleitet und was keiner ihm geben, oder nehmen kann, ist offenbar für ihn wesentlicher, als alles, was er besitzen, oder auch, was er in den Augen anderer sein mag.
Die häufigsten psychischen Erkrankungen der Österreicher sind Depressionen und Angstzustände. 800.000 erberbstätige Österreicher leiden an Depressionen. 32% aller Invaliditätspensionen sind auf psychische Gründe zurückzuführen. Ab dem 65. Lebensjahr sollen 20 bis 30% aller Menschen von psychischen Erkrankungen betroffen sein. Die Zahl der diagnostizierten psychischen Erkrankungen ist in den vergangenen Jahren […]
Some time ago in group of Austrian unemployed I participated in anonymous psychological test on personal wishes and dreams. Living on allowance, people dream mainly about money. If to go to Amazon with idea to find most popular self-improvement books, it will be books how to become rich. It seems […]
Every housewife knows that the real sign of her adequate housekeeping is sanitary state of kitchen and WC. Smell of toilet can narrate story about lodgers, as single bone can help paleontologist create picture of dinosaur. Human body is a system of exchange with environment where nor input of nourishment […]
Whatever they do, average Europeans talk about prices and life costs, and since I live in Austria, I never met a person, who complaining about personal financial predicaments, would not mention option of playing lotto and wining a million, as if mathematical likelihood of event equated not to its magical […]
Dick Swaab, geboren 1944, gilt als einer der international führenden Hirnforscher. „Wir sind unser Gehirn“ stand in den Niederlanden monatelang an der Spitze der Bestsellerliste. (Textausschnitt) Mit „Sucht“ assoziieren wir in erster Linie verwahrloste, obdachlose und oft schizophrene Menschen, und bei „Drogenmissbrauch“ denkt man vielleicht an Borderline-Persönnlichkeitsstörungen. Doch der Neurologe […]
U.S. Russia and Kazakhstan secured plutonium before terrorists got it The Post reported Sunday that hundreds of pounds of plutonium, enough for dozens of nuclear weapons, lay buried for years in Kazakhstan at the Semipalatinsk test site after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold […]