The popular myth that links lunar phases with psychological instability -- a belief surprisingly shared by doctors and nurses has been punctured by scientists. Researchers led by Genevieve Belleville professor at the Universite Laval's School of Psychology Canada examined the link between lunar phases and the numbers showing up at emergency rooms. But they found nothing to substantiate the belief. Researchers evaluated patients who visited emergency rooms at Montreal's Sacre-Coeur Hospital and Hotel-Dieu de Levis between March 2005 and April 2008 the journal General Hospital Psychiatry reports. They focused specifically on 771 individuals who showed up with chest pains for which
