Tagged: Health

English / Health

Depression and inflammation

Even brain imaging of people with depression show that their brain scans have increased neuroinflammation. The theory that depression may be viewed as a neuroimmunological disorder can also help explain why efforts to reduce chronic inflammation in the body also improves and helps prevent depression. Inflammation is part of the body’s immune response to such things as infections, wounds, and damage to tissues. Chronic inflammation can contribute to numerous diseases and conditions, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and some cancers.

English / Health / Nature

Gut microbes and brain

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.

Русский / Здоровье

Алекситимия большого города

Исследуя характер людей, больных гастритом и язвенной болезнью, ученые обнаружили, что для них характерны тревожность, раздражительность, исполнительность и обострённое чувство долга. Им свойственна зависимость от авторитета, понижен­ная самооценка, высокая чувствительность к отказам в любви, стеснительность, застенчивость и повышенная требователь­ность. Такие люди часто стремятся сделать больше, чем они реально могут.

English / Health

Cancer-prone personality

Extremely low anger scores have been noted in numerous studies of patients with cancer. Such low scores suggest suppression, repression, or restraint of anger. There is evidence to show that suppressed anger can be a precursor to the development of cancer, and also a factor in its progression after diagnosis. Notice that their conclusion centers on a certain type of anger that which is not overtly expressed but instead, to use a common expression, is bottled up.

Psychologie / Русский / психология

Обнимательная машина

В сети встретишь немало видео авторов, страдающих синдромом Аспергера и, по их собственному мнению, имеющих в результате этого высокоразвитый интеллект. Исследователь Ганс Аспергер – одаренный и одинокий венский педиатр – был родоначальником исследования поведения высокофункциональных аутистов, которых он называл «психопатами» (1938). В современных австрийских медиа опубликовано...

English / Health

Motion sickness

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...

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Vestibulopathy

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...

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Chemical lobotomy

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...

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Hirnschädigung und Selbstkontrolle

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...

English / Health

Computer versus brain

When it comes to computing, the human brain remains much more powerful and more energy-efficient than any technological processing system on the planet. In fact, developing microchips capable of imitating the way brain synapses work — particularly their ability to process and store information using almost...

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Optical illusions

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...

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Colour vision

Colour vision is the ability of an organism to distinguish objects based on the wavelengths. In essence, different people see the same illuminated object or light source in different ways. Nothing categorically distinguishes the visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation from invisible portions of the broader spectrum....

English / Health / Mentality

Intelligence as longevity predictor

Inverse correlation between intelligence, mortality and morbidity People differ with respect to the efficiency with which their brains operate, and this is the domain of psychologists interested in intelligence differences, showing considerable stability across the life course. The general rule is that people who do well...