World Mental Health Day: WHO-FIFA installs friendship benches to promote mental-health awareness

Project focuses on sports’ role in promoting mental well-being

Mental illness in Africa: Go for community-centred approach, advise experts

Africa has very few psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers working in mental health and psychiatric nurses

Low academic performers prone to higher stress: study

Psychologists have observed that children and adolescents are facing enormous anxiety and stress in the course of their academic programmes, …

World Mental Health Day: COVID-19 pandemic has worsened our mindscape

Survey after survey from across the world have indicated that the pandemic is increasing mental health problems

Study finds genetic variants that increase ADHD risk

Researchers identify 12 regions in the genome, changes to which increase the risk of developing Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Scientists provide new insight into bipolar disorder

Researchers find that patients carry some residual impairment in terms of processing of information even in their normal phases

There is a link between heat and mental health; and climate change is making it more pronounced

There has been an increase in footfall at major psychiatric hospitals in the country since March, an unusually hot month this year

How AI may help diagnose mental illnesses

How music psychology can boost mental illness identification

Researchers from IIIT Hyderabad use datafication of music to find how listening strategies reveal about our current mental state

Novel cure on the horizon for dementia patients

People with dementia can get back their normal lives. Researchers at Queensland Brain Institute have managed to reverse dementia symptoms in mice.…

Virus in the mind

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Where mind matters

Scientists establish that the mind plays a vital role in helping the body fight disease

Rajya Sabha passes Mental Health Bill

Under the legislation, every individual will have the right to get affordable and good quality treatment with easy access to services

A year later, the government’s promises on mental health still unfulfilled

No update on Mental Health Care Bill, other promises

Is the pandemic over? We asked an economist, an education expert and a public health scholar their views

Pandemic or not, it is important to continue investing in the development of improved vaccines and bolstering the preparedness of the medical and …

Why conceptual health is need of the hour

Fixing work hours, monitoring daily growth should be practised as remedial measures for a healthier life

How childhood infections and antibiotics may increase risks of mental illness

Hospitalization for an infection might leave you at greater risk for mental illness, according to a recent study

Here are the top 10 things we should do to improve our mental health

As an individual and a part of a healthy society, we need to adopt these methods to prevent mental illnesses from affecting us

Watch: Why air pollution is bad for mental health

High levels of air pollution can drive people to suicide

International Youth Day: Education needs transforming for children’s mental health

The younger generation has to be equipped with resilience and ability to handle pressures and challenges by inculcating academic excellence and …

How ageing affects the way we make decisions

The saying goes, with age comes wisdom, but is that really true?

The status of mental health care in India: Interview with Vikram Patel

Vikram Patel is a psychiatrist, professor of international mental health and senior clinical research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and …

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