Munch suffered from chronic depression, alcoholism, and phobias. During his eight month recovery at the clinic, he sketched himself receiving nonconvulsive electrotherapy from Jacobsen and his assistant, Miss Schacke. Above the sketch Munch wrote: “Professor Jacobsen is electrifying the famous painter...
So many of the fun science "facts" we have heard, internalized and spread are straight up bogus myths. To start with, our littlelemmingsfriends got a rap for clinical depression based on a "documentary" by Disney that completely fabricated the mass suicide of lemmings by cliff-plunge idea [...
9. Comedown After the rush experienced from ecstasy starts to wear off, the user feels low, which is known as a comedown. Other symptoms of a comedown include paranoia, depression, anxiety and trouble sleeping. It is experienced when the supply of serotonin to the brain is depleted. Source...
When it comes to forming an overall opinion of something, it turns out we are unduly influenced by the first information we encounter, even when new facts come to light. In the case of the garage sale experiment, this bias prevented participants from comparing the boxes rationally, and even ...
Dyslexia Facts - Research Findings Despite popular belief,dyslexics donotsee letters backwards. They often have difficulty naming and writing letters, and in fact, writing letters backwards is something that many kids do when they’re first learning to write, whether they have dyslexia or not. ...