Encyclopedia of Trivia

HISTORY In ancient China , people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt . Seven suicides are recorded in the Bible . In 165AD,...

THE CONDITION Schizophrenia is a mental disorder, which generally develops in early adulthood and can lead to profound changes in person...

The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates prescribed celery as a nerve soother. The Native Americans believed the cranberry had special ...

Ancient civilizations described and treated a number of mental disorders. The Greeks coined terms for melancholy, hysteria and phobia and ...

The first hospital for the mentally ill was built by the Muslims in Baghdad in 705 AD, under the leadership of the Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid...

Around 1770 an Austrian physician Franz Mesmer (May 23, 1734 – March 5, 1815) took up an idea that a power existed, which he referred to as...

EARLY LIFE Sigmund Freud was born to Jewish Galician parents on May 6, 1856 in the Moravian town of Příbor, now part of the Czech Republ...

The use of the word blue for a downcast feeling dates back to the 15th century. Its origin probably lies in the blue tinge of flesh when bl...

Autism is a severe infant disorder of communication and behavior that develops before the age of three. The term has been used to describe m...

Alzheimer's disease, a pre-senile dementia, was given its first full public clinical and pathological description, by a German neurolo...