Troubled Beautiful Minds

They are there—each residential area has its mentally disturbed people; each family has anecdotes of crazy relatives. Nobody wants to …

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 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.…

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

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

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 …

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 …

The essence of being

Is it the soul? Is it the mind? Or is it something outside the confines of the human body? Author most elusive of mental phenomenon of consciousness

Brain-teasers

Recent studies not only reveal that functions of the human brain are highly localised but also that the brain responds to different stimuli in a …

A taste of nerves

By studying a gene causing a taste anomaly in fruit flies, researchers are trying to interpret the working patterns of the human brain

Disguised depression

Feelings of anxiety and alienation must not be taken lightly as most of the cases of depression go unnoticed and hence uncured

Sleep well, old pal

The greatest truths for remaining healthy are evident but mostly ignored. Two new studies stress on one of them -- exercise

When I abandoned movies, yoga came to my rescue

For Aashiqui actor Anu Aggarwal, yoga brought happiness and also provided tools to find it

Overabundance of a protein one of the causes of Parkinson’s disease: study

Parkinson’s disease results in declining physical functions, most noticeable of them being uncontrollable tremors

For a good night's sleep

Most urban Indians dread bedtime. Sleep disorders ensure that 93 per cent of the people living in cities don't sleep well or worse, are not able …

The good that smoking does

Studies suggest smoking protects against diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, but many scientists and funding agencies are not convinced.