Author: Arsen Mayer

Dr. Udi Ohayon, a psychotherapist and art therapist at the school at the Shahaf School at Bat Yam’s Abarbanel Mental Health Center loves butterflies. An idea struck him that the teens at the hospital might benefit watching the colorful insects, which could serve as a therapeutic tool.  In fact, his unique “butterfly garden” at the […]

The health of our gut is extremely important to our overall health. Think of the gut as a hollow tube that is a central connector between both ends of your body. What passes through the mouth and exits through the anus does not actually enter our body. In order to enter the body and reach […]

A lack of environmental cues can have devastating effects on someone’s memory, a new study has found after attempting to understand how a parent could forget their child in a car. The recent peer-reviewed study, published in the journal APA PsychNet, details the result of an experiment in human memory. Why is it important that […]

Yad L’Olim had devised a new system to improve access to healthcare for Jews who have made aliyah to Israel from around the world, the Israeli immigrant advocacy group’s government relations department announced this week. Under the new government budget, funds will be dedicated to ensuring that healthcare facilities are able to recruit medical experts […]

A century-old movie starring Charlie Chaplin has helped researchers at Bar-Ilan University (BIU) in Ramat Gan and the Paris Brain Institute to study the neural substrate of humor using a new tool. Until now, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) that measures the small changes in blood flow that occur with brain activity has been the […]

A child conceived through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) at Assuta Medical Center in Ramat Hachayal, Tel Aviv has seemingly been found not to have a genetic link to his father, raising concerns that the hospital mixed up sperm samples during the IVF process, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. Assuta stated that in the past few […]

Although the COVID-19 pandemic significantly increased Israeli mortality rates in the last two years, when these are excluded, the death rate in Israel in 2020 was the lowest for males and second lowest for females among eight countries including the US, Britain and Germany. This was revealed by the a new, 107-page, Hebrew-language report by […]

Haifa researchers have found a non-genetic cause for alopecia areata baldness, which triggered the surprising incident at the the 94th Academy Awards in which actor Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock after he joked about Smiths wife’s shaved head because of the autoimmune disease. About one person in 50 – equally in men and women […]

People who watch news about human kindness after seeing disturbing news could feel fewer negative emotions and retain more belief in the goodness of humanity, compared to people given just the bad news, researchers have discovered. The findings were published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Dr. Kathryn Buchanan, a psychology lecturer at the […]

Although stress is a natural part of life, when it becomes chronic or prolonged, it can have a negative effect on our physical and mental health.  Stress can cause the body to release hormones such as cortisol, which can affect the immune system and increase inflammation in the body. This inflammation can trigger or worsen […]