The nocebo effect: How your own expectations can make you sick
Less well-known than the placebo effect yet just as remarkable: the nocebo effect causes you to experience more complaints because of negative expectations of a drug or your health.
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New Year’s Resolutions: Friend or Foe?
The new year’s resolution is a tradition that goes back way long to when people used to make promises to gods to pay off their debts. But how about today? Is it all good or can it bring forward some challenges along with it?
How science saved my brain
PKU can be difficult, but it has also given me a lot of appreciation. I now realise that I owe my brain – and the rest of my life – to science.
Gaming your healing
Playing videogames can improve your well-being and may even help with recovery from trauma and other mental health challenges.
Regular or diet soda: Can you taste the difference? Your brain certainly does
You may be misleading your taste buds with artificial sweeteners, but your brain is not so easy to deceive.
Too much to sense at once
Imagine that every detail you see, hear or smell triggers your thoughts simultaneously. From every tiny inscription on the packaging to all the massive sales signs, from a nearby whisper to the distant traffic… It is all too much to sense at once: this is what sensory overload feels like.
Gardening against stress
Gardening is not just cheaper than therapy, it also gives you tomatoes…
Drama? Or trauma?
The representation of mental disorders in society and pop culture repeatedly misses, at best, the nuances associated with the experience of living with a mental disorder. In the attempt of characterizing psychiatric disorders by creating dramatic and oversimplified caricatures, have we failed to recognize something fundamental that we all share to some extent despite our diagnostic boundaries?
Play a game to get over your fear of needles
Some people have negative feelings towards vaccines, while others fear not the vaccine but the