NEWS
ANIMALS, A GOOD SLEEPING PILL
Allergies, hygiene, there are many reasons to ban cats, dogs and other pets from our children's beds. However, according to a recent Canadian study carried out on participants in the Healthy Heart Project aged between 11 and 17, this would be wrong: this nocturnal cohabitation seems to have a beneficial effect, linked to the comforting presence of the animal. Of course this depends on the quality of the relationship between the child and their four-legged friend.
NIGHTMARES TO BUILD UP RESISTANCE TO FEAR In the countries most affected by Covid-19 and those with strict quarantine measures in place, people seem to have had more nightmares. A study of 114 doctors and 414 nurses working in the Chinese city of Wuhan found that
more than a quarter of them reported having frequent nightmares. However, after a bad dream, the area of the brain that prepares us for fear is more effective, as if the nightmare had trained us for this situation.
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