Mental health at work
Work can be a protective factor for mental health, but it can also contribute to potential harm. All workers have the right to a safe and healthy environment at work. The Mental health at work: policy
Mental Health
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UNITED NATIONS
Epilepsy, a neurological disorder characterised by fits, is the focus of a combined drive launched by the World Health Organi zation and the Inter national League Against Epilepsy, an international
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For a saner world
realising the need to redress the growing burden of neuro-psychiatric and behavioural disorders, the World Health Organization ( who ) has launched a worldwide inter-agency programme
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Trust the robot
Soon a simple robot that can learn the physical characteristics of the brain may give neurosurgeons finer control over surgical instruments during delicate brain operations
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Mental dilemma
The first symptoms of schizophrenia usually appear in the late 20 s, but neuroscientists now believe that the seeds for the disease are sown during foetal development
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The hare brained gender
Men lose brain tissue as they age at almost three times the rate women do; this could reduce their memory, concentration and reasoning power, says Ruben C Gur, a professor of psychology at
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Communication gain
The'notion that alzheimer's disease -mental deterioration -strikes only the old suffered a severe jolt following a study of nuns by David A Snowdon, professor of preventive medicine at the
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Elevating solution
Scientists have started using virtual reality (VR) methods for various psychiatric therapies. Proposed by Hans Sieburg, a professor of psychiatry and mathematics at the University of California
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Disguised depression
Feelings of anxiety and alienation must not be taken lightly as most of the cases of depression go unnoticed and hence uncured
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Striking out strokes
The discovery of a new drug, TPA, provides succour to hapless nervous stroke victims. Most importantly, the drug helps in arresting serious and irreparable brain damage and gives stroke victims a new lease on life
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Memory loss by inches
Dieting anxiety could reduce memory instead of calories