Some people can smell colors – or sense sounds and smells and thus experience the world in a completely different way, because they perceive much more than other people.
Body health
Roses are red, violets are blue – the world in all its beauty appears colorful and bright. But a closer look reveals a different picture: In reality, the world is not as colorful as we see it.
What happens in my body during withdrawal? How long does it take my head to get clean? Is there a vaccination against drugs? Toxicologists, psychologists and doctors explain why our brain poisons itself and what the consequences are when we go to war against addiction.
Sleep deprivation increases the risk of depression and promotes obesity. These ten tips can help you get a good night’s sleep.
In many ways, people with Alzheimer’s seem to behave like children. But it is not by choice. Because of the disease, they no longer know what they are doing – and they suffer greatly as a result. The psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer first made the link between changes in the brain and the gradual loss of memory.
Childbirth pain is considered to be the most intense there is. A scratch, on the other hand, is hardly felt: the brain is quickly signaled that the injury is not life-threatening. But how far can pain go?
For most people, pain is an unpleasant thing. But some people seem to find satisfaction in pain – they seem to be addicted to it. But how can that be?
