mental health

According to the study, while moderate consumption of coffee is not considered bad, excessive intake could make one hear voices that actually don't exist.

Professor Simon Crowe and his colleagues from the School of Psychological Sciences at the La Trobe University based their findings on the fact that caffeine present in coffee is the most commonly used psychoactive drug.

Scientists from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), found that the fungicide ziram, like the previously linked pesticides maneb and paraquat, also harms brain cells.

The recent study, published online in the ‘European Journal of Epidemiology,’ not only included the people who lived nearby the farm fields, like the previous study, but also the workplaces near the sprayed fields.

The researchers observed a three-time increase in the risk of PD with exposure to the combination of ziram, maneb, and paraquat near any workplace.

University of Montreal researchers found that metyrapone reduces the levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which is associated with memory recall.

"Metyrapone is a drug that significantly decreases the levels of cortisol, a stress hormone that is involved in memory recall," stated Marie-France Marin, the lead author and a doctoral student at the university.