For decades, scientists have been searching for differences in the bodies of depressed and healthy people. For many years, however, the hoped-for breakthrough failed to materialize. However, a flood of [...]
Can we simulate the medical effect of pills by just by imagining taking a pill? A fascinating new study published in Nature (Buergler et al., 2023) provides answers and could [...]
The research is clear: the more we embrace fear (exposure, confrontation), the more it will release us from its grip. But how can therapeutic anxiety confrontation be made even more [...]
Even though our lives would certainly be dull and boring without emotions, everyone has probably wished at some point that he or she no longer had to bear a negative [...]
The quick way to higher intelligence? When children (but also adults) encounter difficulties, they tend to think handicapping thoughts: "I'm so stupid," "I can't do it." All of these negative [...]
The "Pokémon Go" hype that drove people to the streets in large numbers in the late summer of 2016 was the first proof of the mass appeal of "augmented reality" [...]
Many people know the awkward situation: You meet someone on the street and just want to say hello, and suddenly your voice doesn't sound relaxed and melodious, but slightly broken. [...]
Many people who suffer from excessive anxiety are also plagued by sleep disorders. But are sleep disorders sometimes also the cause of anxiety? If this is the case, effective sleep [...]
Approximately 5% of all people in Europe suffer from agoraphobia at least once in their lives (the 12-month prevalence is about 2%; Wittchen and Hoyer, 2011). Due to fear (of [...]
What does really help after a traumatic experience? Should we, directly after a traumatic experience, talk through the traumatic experience again in great detail in a conversation with a psychologist [...]
