Riddles of man 2024, November

Genius and madness, creativity and delirium, Salvador Dali and Mark Aurelius from Kashchenko - what connects them? Where is the line where creativity ends and nonsense begins? What is Cognitive Disinhibition? How much does the inability to throw useless things out of consciousness affects the characteristics of our psyche?

23-year-old Georgia girl suffers from a rare case of dissociative identity disorder

William (Billy) Milligan became known to the world after the trial in Ohio. He was accused of rape and robbery, but the defenders obtained an acquittal. Their main argument was that Milligan suffered from a personality disorder

Split personality - a phenomenon well known to psychologists. Despite numerous observations, the mechanism by which two or more different people live in one body is still not entirely clear

Multiple Personality Cases: Multiple Personality Disorders - spontaneous reincarnation of people into another personality. In our time, such a person most often comes under the supervision of psychiatrists

The human brain is equipped with a complex visual information processing system that provides us with vision. However, even if this system is working properly, you can become blind, which is exactly what happened to the heroine of this article, who lives in Germany

There are people on Earth who have spent a huge amount of time in complete isolation from the world and from other people. It was either their own choice, or the imprisonment took place under duress

A rare mental phenomenon known as "split personality", unlike most diseases in this area, is of interest not only to psychiatrists

We ingest antioxidants as if they were a magic elixir that could prolong our life. However, at best they are simply ineffective, and at worst - can shorten our earthly path. BBC Future columnist explains why

This collective frenzy began in the area where the Miskito people live, and a strange ailment, very similar to mass psychosis, was suddenly discovered

Phantom satellites, the smell of food, car noise: at high altitude, climbers' senses are often deceived by some strange illusion. Doctors consider these symptoms to be a special type of psychosis that occurs separately from the classic altitude sickness

According to recent research, using the Internet can provoke feelings of loneliness and depression, and possibly severe mental illness, reports The Daily Beast

Have you ever heard of a mental illness such as Dissociative Identity Disorder or Identity Split Personality Disorder? Sounds intriguing, even though a movie is about it, isn't it

Doctors describe a case of a person with bipolar disorder, whose episodes of illness alternated in accordance with the movement of the moon

Psychiatrists call schizophrenia a "psychiatric dump." Like, everything incomprehensible is dumped there. But among this incomprehensible there are long-known syndromes, albeit very rare.The European Committee of Experts on Rare Diseases (EUCERD) numbers about 8 thousand

Cotard's syndrome or Delirium of Cotard - a rather rare mental disorder due to nihilistic-hypochondriacal depressive delusions

People with schizophrenia are rarely able to adequately assess their condition. But there are, on the contrary, those who are not sure - whether they have a mental illness or not. For this case, psychiatrists have developed special tests

According to statistics, men are more likely to suffer from mental disorders than women. Why is this happening? The fact is that the strong and the weaker sex are prone to various pathologies of the psyche, scientists say

51-year-old Briton Kim Noble amazed psychiatrists - she has more than just a split personality - it combines 20 different people - from a girl with anorexia to a boy who writes only in Latin

Legends about creepy werewolves have been going on for millennia, the transformation of people into animals is mentioned even in early medical works. But this is not mysticism, but a form of mental illness - illusion of transformation

A strange disease is right … From the Greek "POLOMYSHLENIE" - a mental disorder in which the general thinking and sanity of behavior are disturbed. The individual becomes obsessed with "brilliant" ideas and delusions at times

According to statistics, every 4th person on Earth suffers from one or another mental or behavioral disorder

It's not news that tattoos are trending these days, but a new study has shown that nanoparticles of ink from tattoos also stain other parts of the body, including some important internal organs

People are known to be the most bloodthirsty and cruel representatives of the Earth's biosphere. And it did not happen by accident - say scientists from Spain who focused on identifying the causes of natural human cruelty

Meditation - this is a form of mental work when a person focuses on any one thought, problem, object in order to immerse himself in a state of mild hypnosis or trance

Knowing this, a person will be able not to succumb to the provocations of his own consciousness and achieve higher results both in his career and in his personal life. Scientists talk about how the human brain learned to distort reality to make life easier

Pensioner Tatiana Barkova - She is a regular reader of the Meshcherskaya Storona. Either he calls to tell about the sore point, then with a question to the "Information", or even just talk. Rarely does a story from her lips do without mentioning mysticism and signs of fate

According to Orthodox tradition, it is believed that Lent before Easter cleanses the spirit and body, prepares a person for the biggest Christian holiday

The parietal lobe was weakly activated in the brains of all participants in the experiment, who felt a connection with the "higher forces"

Tens of thousands of experiments have combined to prove that humans (and possibly animals as well) are more likely to have the ability to feel when someone is looking at them, says Dr. Dean Radin

This may sound like something supernatural, but scientific evidence shows that there is a possibility that people have some kind of feeling that can be compared to the ability to sense a "force field" around them

Scientists at Duke University (USA) have found that among the generation X and millennials, a decrease in life expectancy and an increase in the risk of premature death are expected. Reported by Science Daily

Canadian resident Dana Negrey has been hearing this unusual low frequency sound 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for ten years

Some people are known to talk in their sleep. About one in twentieth adults - if we are to name the exact statistics. Scientists have tried to figure out the dreaming and find out whether to sound the alarm when something like this is found

A strange experiment conducted by a person who believes in the paranormal, makes you wonder how differently each of us perceives this world. We Know That Faith Can Blind People, But Can Unbelief Do The Same

Each person is endowed with special energy, but few people know that the female energy is different from the male one. And as it turned out, it is she who can radically change your life

The simpler the Rorschach spot, the more associations it generates: mathematicians measured the fractal complexity of the famous blots and determined that our brain readily interprets simple patterns, and does not see anything superfluous in complex ones

Psychologists from the Universities of Wolverhampton and Sheffield have found that if you say to yourself the phrase "I can do it better", you can really improve your abilities and effectively complete any task

We've all been in this situation: when you sit in a boring meeting, stand in line or wait for the bus to leave, it starts to feel like time moves much slower than usual

Scientists have long wondered why some people have curly hair, while others do not, or why in some places on the body the hair curls, and in others straight