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Cats don’t avoid strangers who behave badly towards their owners, unlike dogs

          It is obvious that cats and dogs are different. There is a stereotype that says dogs ar more loyal than cats, and cats are more independnt than dogs. In Japan, researchers did a little experiment. Cats' and dogs' owners had a task to open a box. There were two strangers, sitting. One of them helped owner open the box and the other one was just watching. Pets were watching the whole situation. Researchers gave the  the strangers food for animals. They were trying to check if any of this pets will feel different about strangers- will they feel aversion to people who have not helped? Or will they feel sympathy for the people who helped? Dogs prefered to take food from the helper, but for cats there was no difference. I don't think that this experiment should create our point of view- animals are much more complicated! They have various personalities, some of them like humans, others not. It depend on surroundings that they were born. And I agree with...

People with depression can sometimes experience memory problems

           Depression is a mental illness which we often connect with being sad, tired and feeling of hopelessness. But it's not only about low mood that most of the ill people feel. Sometimes, they might be forgetful, they might have problem with short-term memory. We don't hear it as major symptom, it is often don't describe as something linked with this illness. There are cognitiv impairments, which are pretty common. Depression can affect response time, planning, desicion-making and reasoning. Ill people lose control over stress response system. If we have depression, our brain has to work harder on remembering things. But there is something that helps people with depession. It's special therapy that involves systematic review and future perspective. It benefits working memory(non verbal learning), processing speed and paying attention. Talking thrapies are also helpful, same as antidepressants. It's importants to start seeing problem with memory as a d...