Dementia is the general term for a decline in cognitive function, it’s not a specific disease but a syndrome which has various causations and symptoms. Dementia affects memory thinking, language judgement and behaviour, usually it’s chronic or progressive with it being more common in older people. In the UK around 944,000 are estimated to be […]
Month: January 2025
Three Identical Strangers – A Netflix Documentary
On Netflix, there is a fascinating documentary called ‘Three Identical Strangers’ following the story of triplets: Edward Galland, David Kellman and Robert Shafran, separated at birth as part of a study by Peter B. Neubauer and Viola W. Bernard. The study involved monitoring and testing the children through their childhoods to discover whether their behaviours […]
Body Clock: What Makes Us Tick?
How Light and Time Shape Our Health and Wellbeing: The documentary “Body Clock: What Makes Us Tick?” follows a former commando as he spends ten days in a nuclear bunker without being able to tell the time. Throughout the experiment, the importance of light for controlling our body clock is investigated, as well as the […]