Riddles of man 2024, April

For decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have tried to explain how cognitive memory processes work, why we forget certain things, and why our minds cannot store more knowledge. A study published in Cell Reports showed that with the acquisition of new experience, we lose some other

The memory of some people is arranged in an amazing way: supplementing a story or memory with embellished details, they themselves soon begin to believe what they have invented. Perhaps this is not at all a tendency to tell lies, scientists say

An incredible incident took place in the Philippine city of Aurora, South Zamboanga province. 3-year-old girl who was pronounced dead by doctors suddenly resurrected at her own funeral

Is it easy to instill an illusion in a person by passing it off as a real memory? Recent experiments by Israeli scientists show that this is very easy to do. A little bit of lies and a drop of social pressure - and the person already “remembers” what in fact did not exist. It

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you witnessed an event together with someone, but for some reason then remembered what happened in different ways? It would seem that you were nearby, saw the same thing, but for some reason you have different memories of the event

The human brain is the most complex thing in the universe. The neurons of the nervous system, which formed this organ, capable of carrying out mental activity. The brain is hidden in darkness, protected by the skull, but by interpreting electrical signals from the senses, it is able to construct a detailed picture of the surrounding world

Researchers from the University of Exeter have proven that living on the seaside improves mental health. Scientists have published data based on a survey of 26 thousand respondents in England, according to the National Geographic website.Approximately one in six adults in Foggy Albion suffers from mental health problems such as anxiety and depression

Abdominal muscles tense, breathing is difficult, and tears are streaming down my cheeks. Doesn't sound very nice.In fact, this is just a fit of laughter, which you can have when, for example, you see a clown on the screen, or your girlfriend falls out of bed trying to reach the alarm button, or you are simply tickled well

We are used to hearing that laughter and positive emotions are beneficial. Meanwhile, scientists and doctors have come to the conclusion that they bring real benefits to our health and are even able to treat some ailments

Our life is influenced by the simplest things that we can manage on our own. And one of those things is a voluntary choice between sadness and fun.- Salik.bizClowns against diseaseDespondency is mentioned in biblical texts as a mortal sin, and a very serious one

Petersburg scientists have found a link between the level of intelligence and enthusiasm for memes.A team of scientists from St Petersburg University, headed by Olga Shcherbakova, Associate Professor of the Department of General Psychology, conducted an interesting study

After a couple of hundred thousand years of walking around this big blue ball in decrepit meat casings, we have figured out quite a lot about what it means to be human

And scientists are sure that this happens quite often.Colombian Noelia Serna was admitted with a heart attack to Cali University Hospital. In intensive care, she had a second attack, after which the patient was declared dead. A few hours later, the funeral agency officials who began embalming the "corpse" noticed that the woman was moving and returned her to the hospital

Kim Peek learned to read at 16 months, at 18 he read and memorized the complete works of Shakespeare, and at the end of his life kept in memory the contents of 12 thousand books he had read. He is the prototype of the hero of the movie "Rain Man" with Dustin Hoffman, the most famous person with savant syndrome, a condition in which mental disorders are combined with extraordinary abilities

Emotions take a very important place in a person's life. Every day people experience different emotions: joy, sadness, longing, frustration, fear, confidence, and many others. From this, a person's mood can change throughout the day. At the same time, few people think about how this can affect physical health

Some diseases are still not accepted to be discussed: they are frightening. And mental disorders are record holders in this regard. It's time to change your attitude towards them.Mental illness is one of the leading causes of disability. 4,044,210 - this is the absolute number of patients with mental disorders in Russia, as of 2015

In principle, this is so. It may be just not familiar to some, but often people had a better opinion of their voice, until they heard it on the recording. Now, with the proliferation of video and audio recording media, people from an early age get used to how their voice is heard from the outside, but earlier one could hear their voice for the first time at the age of 30

The ancient Greeks believed in the existence of monsters with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a snake's tail. They called them chimeras. Genetic research suggests that some people's cells contain two variants of DNA. That is, in this case, there are two genetically different people in one body

A resident of the English county of Essex became numb for several months, and then began to speak with four foreign accents. It is reported by the Times Now News. Orphanage employee Emily Egan started having headaches. After a few weeks, her speech became slow and slurred

“Pain is the watchdog of health,” said the sages of Ancient Greece. And indeed it is. In the process of evolution of the animal world, pain turned into a signal of danger, became an important biological factor for the preservation of life

Psychopathy is one of the most complex disorders. The psychopath can appear normal, even adorable. Sometimes he lacks a sense of conscience and empathy, which makes him manipulative, unstable and often (but by no means always) a criminal.According to the scientist, that he spent many years studying their behavior: "We think of psychopaths as murderers, alien to society

Joy is different. There is joy, calm and light, giving us transparent happiness, and there is joy, exuberant, unrestrained, overflowing with pleasures and euphoria. Now, these two different joys make two different hormones. Unbridled joy and euphoria is the dopamine hormone

Simultaneously with the coronavirus epidemic, we can see the development of several mental epidemics (they are also mass psychogenic illness). A mental epidemic is a simultaneous manifestation and epidemic spread of certain ideas of "memes" among a large number of people, which lead to their unusual destructive behavior

What modern man seems to have completely forgotten. We strive to develop intelligence, thinking, creativity, certain qualities of character, but we are the last to worry about the needs of our natural "spacesuit". And then we wonder why the body so persistently reminds of itself …- Salik.bi

200 years have passed since the Russian classic Alexander Griboyedov wrote the cult play "Woe from Wit", and the problem expressed in this title of the work is much more acute. What makes a modern person with high intelligence feel much more unhappy than his less developed fellows in reason?

Mammals, including humans, are programmed by nature to continue their kind, and during the processes of preparation for reproduction, selection mechanisms are triggered to give future offspring the best chances of survival: physical strength, endurance, immunity

The Alpina Non-Fiction Publishing House publishes the book Counterclockwise by scientific journalist Polina Loseva. TASS publishes an excerpt on how scientists look for signs of aging in the body.Publishing house * Alpina non-fiction *.Collect them allIn 2001, the first “fragility index” appeared, one of the simplest markers of aging. The

"… I am ready to write this in capital letters - there is not a single fossil that could serve as irrefutable evidence of the existence of transitional forms."

Among the people who have achieved worldwide recognition in science, art, politics, business and sports, one in five is left-handed

Brain cell transplantation can give a person a second life, says the Kiev scientist. While we are thinking about prices, salaries and other everyday little things, some are seriously concerned about the problem of personal immortality. What

We have a prescription for hypertension that your doctor will definitely not give: go to church

The Journal of Palliative Medicine has published the results of a 10-year scientific study led by Dr. Christopher Kerr by a medical team at the American Hospice and Palliative Care Center in Buffalo

Scientists from Germany, Norway and Denmark have found that one in ten people experiences a near-death experience. The overwhelming majority of the “dying” respondents had a distorted perception of time, more than two-thirds of the senses were greatly heightened and mental activity increased. A n

At the end of any motion picture, the end credits appear on the screen. Human life is much more complicated than any movie, but what do people see before the end of this “film”?Many may have heard or read about how people, being in a borderline state, experience unusual sensations. Usu

Specialists from the American Center for Hospice and Palliative Care in Buffalo completed a 10-year study and made a rather intriguing and mysterious discovery: it turns out that shortly before death, people begin to have the same dreams.People who have suffered so-called clinical death, that is, a reversible stage of death, which is a kind of transition period between life and biological death, often talk about strange visions

In the city of Coronel Oviedo in southern Paraguay, a declared dead woman woke up in preparation for a funeral service. This is reported by the Paraguayan newspaper ABC Color.On April 11, Gladys Rodríguez de Duarte, 46, suffering from ovarian cancer, was taken to a private clinic with high blood pressure

Psychogenic death is a terrible condition that occurs when a person refuses to live. It is important to note that this is not suicide and the condition itself has nothing to do with depression. Basically, it is the act of giving up life, which usually occurs over a period of days or weeks and is a real condition

Robert Lanza claims that death - it is an illusion of human consciousness

Are you afraid of death? This terrible phobia in scientific language sounds like thanatophobia and, to some extent, occurs, perhaps, in every person. Perhaps death is the biggest mystery for humanity, because no one has yet been able to find out what happens after it occurs

There is an article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences for August 2011 titled "Nothing Paranormal About Near Death: How Neurology Can Explain Seeing Bright Lights, Meeting the Dead, or Believing You Are Dead." In this article, the authors tried to explain the most frequent stories of those who returned from "from there"