In the midst of the “Ice Bucket Challenge” craze of going to help raise awareness for another worthy cause, psychedelic research. I’m going to approach this article a little differently; I’m going to write this as more of research (past and current) based summary than most typical articles. This is…
Depression has always been a hot topic of discussion and with the recent death of actor/comedian, Robin Williams; it seems to have people talking even more. Let’s face it; we all get “depressed” from time to time. The daily demands we face are often enough to stress us out and…
Serge Moscovici, a French social psychologist, coined the term Cognitive Polyphasia in the 80s. Same guy behind the social representation theory (another interesting read). This seemingly innocent frame of mind is all about having contradicting thoughts and multiple frames of references to explain an event either to themselves or to other…
We live in a day in age where we have the world at our fingertips; all of the knowledge we could ever want to seek is ours for the taking! Anything we can dream up, we can achieve. Life can be full of excitement and possibilities; yet, we are societies…
The psychoactive drug seems to help in combating the fear of impending death associated with a terminal illness. An incurable disease sooner or later makes the person face the fact of premature and inevitable (and possibly quite painful) death. This serious psychological problem should be solved, but it is clear…
When we sleep, external stimuli become part of our dreams. Our brain has the ability to integrate the 'interference' in dreams in order to make us remain in the sleeping state. Therefore, there are several factors that influence your dreams and alter your events and experiences in the dream…
Did you know that certain things you come in contact with in your everyday life are slowly killing your intelligence by deteriorating your cognitive performance? Sometimes, we don't realize how harmful our habits may be. You have already worked a lot to increase your intelligence and this is something you…
Nature in general, and when it comes to our own psyche in particular, is very crafty in creating states we know little about. Mental disorders are one such example. A lot of psychiatric syndromes have been studied and named in honor of famous writers, artists, book characters, psychiatrists, and other…
