What does your handwriting say about you?

It’s amazing how much you can tell from a person’s handwriting. Just like your body language, your handwriting speaks volumes about your character and can even be used to indicate serious health problems.

We collected the most predominant features of calligraphy that define your personality.

Sleep deprivation linked to false confessions

Sleep-deprived people are much more likely to sign false confessions than rested individuals, according to a groundbreaking study that has important implications for police interrogation practices.

The odds of signing a false confession were 4.5 times higher for participants who had been awake for 24 hours than for those who had slept eight hours the night before.

Linguistics and Rehabilitative Medicine Go Hand in Hand at Kazan University

Acting Chair of the Department of Russian Language and Applied Linguistics Yelena Gorobets speaks about the research.

The workgroup helps neurologists in their work with patients, specifically in creating questionnaires that research lexical patterns describing symptoms of different diseases. Another their important part of the work is creating questionnaires for alexithymic patients. Alexithymia is a personality construct describing inability to express emotions in the self. The questionnaires with prepared words and phrases help such individuals to search for the necessary phrasing in the list instead of trying to think of a des­cription. This kind of research is unique for Russia. Moreover, the interdisciplinary team now has its own research base at the Kazan University Clinic.