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.