Psychiatrists want to investigate the potential of psilocybin in the treatment of drug-resistant depression. Piotr Marcinowicz and Magdalena Więdłocha and their team received a recommendation for funding to the amount of PLN 16 million from the Medical Research Agency for this research.
A recent survey conducted by the SWPS University sheds new light on an often overlooked aspect of Polish society: everyday kindness.
Loneliness most often affects young people aged 18-34, people from larger cities and the highest earners, according to the latest CBOS study. People aged 45-54 are the least likely to experience loneliness.
The end of life awaits us all, the only question is the condition we will be in and when it will happen. Some scientists consider the 120th year of life to be the limit, perhaps it will be possible to move it even further, says Judyta Samul-Jastrzębska, an internist and geriatrician.
Mathematics, theoretical computer science, programming - these are the fields of science in which AI will be the first to effectively support scientists. It is only a matter of time before it achieves superhuman capabilities in these areas, Professor Piotr Sankowski tells PAP.
The increase in air pollution in cities is related to increased traffic during morning commutes to schools, according to research from the University of Warsaw. Scientists believe that the situation can be improved by changing the habits of children and parents, not by traffic bans.
Around 3.68 million Poles, including 2.16 million women, work in the 20 groups of professions most exposed to the replacement of employees by AI, a new report has found.
Should learning be easy and happen quickly? Not at all! In order to effectively memorize facts, it is important to put effort into retrieving information - not only repeatedly, but also in different ways, according to a Polish study on memory.
Déjà vu - the false impression that 'this has happened before' - has many similarities with involuntary autobiographical memories, i.e. a situation when we suddenly remember a scene from our past, says psychologist Dr. Krystian Barzykowski from the Jagiellonian University.
Children and young people most often ask AI questions about the present and the future, considering the answers an oracle. This leads to perceiving it as an authority and giving AI subjectivity, Dr. Ada Florentyna Pawlak from SWPS University points out.