Articles of: Maja Kochanowska
Disorders that co-occur with autism spectrum disorder
Autism spectrum disorder is diagnosed based on deficits in communication and interaction with other people and the presence of restricted and repetitive behaviors, interests or activities. But that’s not all. People with autism often struggle with co-occurring problems, including mental disorders, sleep disorders, digestive system disorders, ADHD, and epilepsy.
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Time perception in children and adults
Time is the fundamental dimension we use to coordinate our social interactions and organize our memories and plans. How do we estimate time? How does the sense of time differ between children and adults, and at what age do we begin to perceive time similarly to adults? Sandra Stojić and her colleagues tried to answer […]
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Lavender – a natural anti-anxiety agent
Lavender is known as a plant that has a calming effect and this is confirmed by scientific research. Most data indicate its beneficial effect in times of stress, but it may also help some people suffering from anxiety disorders. It may also improve sleep quality and reduce depressive symptoms that co-occur with anxiety.
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SSRI antidepressants reduce the ability to reinforcement learning
Approximately 40-60% of patients taking SSRIs experience the so-called emotional blunting, i.e. they feel both negative and positive emotions less strongly. The latest research indicates that the reason may be a weakening of sensitivity to feedback, including rewards.
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Artificial intelligence may soon be better at diagnosing schizophrenia than humans
Schizophrenia is more than just delusions and hallucinations. People with this mental illness also often have speech and thinking disorders that can be detected by artificial intelligence based on the analysis of their speech. And as it turns out – artificial intelligence can be better at this than psychiatrists and psychologists.
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Autism or alexithymia?
Alexithymia, or difficulties in recognizing and naming emotions, very often co-occurs with the autism spectrum disorder. So often that it is confused with it, which leads to incorrect stereotypes about autistic people.
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Salt – how it affects the brain and why we need it
Almost 40% of table salt is sodium. It is the largest source of sodium in our diet. Its excess is unhealthy for many organs, but too little salt is equally harmful. Without sodium, our brain cannot function.
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When the blind man regains the sight…
It seems obvious to us that when we look at an object, e.g. a cup or a chair, we can recognize what it is. We are also able to determine whether we have seen a given thing before or not. For people who were blind from birth or lost their sight very early and regained […]
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A new smartphone application effective in the treatment of tinnitus
Tinnitus is an irritating condition that can cause or exacerbate problems with sleep, concentration, anxiety and depression, and hearing problems. The exact pathophysiology of tinnitus is still unknown, but it is assumed that it may result from disturbed activity within and between several neural networks. There are various factors that contribute to the severity of […]
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Looking at yourself while videoconferencing can have negative consequences, especially for women
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, many people have switched to remote work, and thus face-to-face meetings have been turned into video conferences, using programs such as Zoom or Teams. Such programs have one feature that makes videoconferencing significantly different from face-to-face meetings, namely during a videoconference we see not only other meeting participants, […]
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