Psychology & Psychiatry

Visual perception is more rational than we think, shows study

Are our senses there to provide us with the most complete representation of the world, or do they serve our survival? For a long time, the former was the dominant view in neuroscience. "Was" is the operative word here. In ...

Neuroscience

Pupil dilation: A window to perception

The eyes are often referred to as the "windows to the soul." In fact, there is a grain of neurobiological truth to this. An international research team from the Universities of Göttingen and Tübingen, Germany, and Baylor ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

The effects of dynamic light on our state of mind

When we recently put our clocks forward for daylight saving time, we lost one hour of sleep and the mornings became darker again. This change of light disrupts our biological clock for a few days. But how does that work with ...

Medications

How to store CBD oil to prevent its degradation

It has been known for thousands of years that the cannabis plant interacts with the human body on many levels: to relieve neuropathic pain, to lower intraocular pressure, to increase appetite, and to decrease nausea and vomiting. ...

Medical research

Women's menstrual cycles temporarily synchronize with moon cycles

The blog "Ladyplanet. Natürlich Frau sein" is quite certain: "Our cycle is linked to that of the moon. The most obvious connection is the length of the two cycles," it says. The newspaper Berliner Tagesspiegel comes to the ...

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