Friday, January 23, 2009

Hearing Voices? Maybe Cut Back On Coffee

A new study by a British university links high caffeine intake with hallucinatory experiences like hearing voices and seeing things that are not there.

The study out of Durham University quizzed 219 students about their consumption of coffee, tea, energy drinks and chocolate. The students were then asked about hallucinatory experiences and their stress levels. The survey is available online here. These finding were published Wednesday in the academic journal Personality and Individual Differences.

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