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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Women's woes
Women are almost twice as much disposed to depression as men, suggests a collection of studies. While hormones and sleep cycles determine mood changes, it is confirmed that genes play no role
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Sex discrimination
Do gender differences reflect in the functioning of the brain? Yes, say scientists who have confirmed the hypothesis that differences exist in the functional,organisation of brain for a specific
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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
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I feel therefore I am
While neuroscientists look for the secret of consciousness in thinking, a psychologist Nicholas Humphrey has put forward the concept that senses or feelings hold the key to the most elusive of the
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Voices in the mind
Is consciousness merely a ghost conjured by neurons? During the last decade or so, the idea that inner speech, or the human mind's ability to talk to itself, could fashion consciousness, has made a
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A case for the conscious chicken
Is consciousness unique to us or are animals also conscious of their existence? In her latest book Through Our Eyes Only? Mario Stamp Dawkins, a lecturer at Oxford University, makes a careful case
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Developing frenzy
A NEW study by the Harvard Medical School (the first of its kind) -- presented recently to UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali -- warns of an alarming rise in mental health problems in
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BRAINWORK
In a significant development towards tackling brain disorders, American researchers claim to have successfully transplanted immature brain cells in mice to treat a genetic brain abnormality similar
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Will you kill yourself?
Or can your tendency towards suicide be anticipated and stopped?
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A matter of the mind
Mind-body medicine: in the realm of the possible but wholly inexplicable, this loose curative system has more takers every day