Nicht glauben, sondern wissen
A pack of potato chips instead of a bowl of salad – a few hours on the couch instead of at the gym: we constantly break our resolutions and surrender to the commands of a very selfish brain. Yet, anyone can beat laziness. What slows us down, what keeps us going? How can we overcome the motivation killers in our heads?
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.
Just ten minutes of acute oxygen deficiency can cause irreparable damage to our brain. If it lasts longer, we become unconscious and fall into a coma.
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.
What if we were able to cure even the most serious illness using only the power of our thoughts?
Music brings people together, makes us dance, sing, and sometimes even cry. This effect has been scientifically proven.
What made Einstein’s brain different from other people’s? And why was the world’s most ingenious thinking organ stored in a mayonnaise jar?
Almost everyone has encountered déjà vu – the sudden feeling of having experienced a similar situation before. But where does it come from?
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.
Unpleasant sounds can cause physical reactions. In some cases, this is a remnant of human evolution. In other cases, it is a disorder.
