Depression can have many different causes of loneliness is one of them. It can affect people of all age groups. The Red cross even speaks of an “epidemic in the Hidden”.
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Medicine and health: loneliness and depression
Brain pacemaker for depression – Can it work?
Depression – this is more than just from time to time a bit sad. It is a serious disease, but, unfortunately, still a taboo. In Germany alone, about five percent of men and more than eleven percent of the women suffer from depression. Be treated for depression, mostly with drugs and / or psychotherapy. Now, doctors are testing whether, in such cases, perhaps current pulses could help. In diseases such as Parkinson’s or epilepsy surgical brain pacemakers are no longer. More of Veronika Bräse.
Loneliness as a reason for depression?
More and more people feel left alone. The UK has responded. There will be in the future, a Ministry of the loneliness, of the increasing Isolation of many people to counteract. In Germany, too, politicians and practitioners to discuss such an Institution. But loneliness is not just a Problem in the UK and Germany, but also in other European countries. In Sweden, for example, in a country in the European North is not only to heal the world and the home of Pippi Longstocking and the bullerby, as Carsten Schmiester reported.
The brains of Jazz and classical pianists tick differently
Jazz and classical music are two different music genres, and in Jazz pianist from running, apparently, all other processes in the brain as a classical pianist, even if both play the same piece of music. Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institute for human cognitive and brain Sciences in Leipzig have found out about it. All musicians have different brain structures than non-musicians. A contribution of Susi exchange Baumer.