Five Ways Travelling Can Boost Your Mental Health and Relationship

Date Posted: December 7, 2018

Written By:
Counsellor Shivani Misri Sadhoo

Parental Anxiety and Children's Learning

A new study has found that parents’ attitudes towards mathematics can predict the learning outcomes of their children.

Date Posted: December 6, 2018

MDMA Enhances Cooperation

A new study from King’s College London suggests that MDMA – found in ecstasy – may explain why users cooperate more after taking the drug. However, a caveat to this finding is that the enhanced cooperative effect only shows for people they have perceived as trustworthy and not to others deemed less trustworthy. This is the first study that closely examines the role of MDMA in affecting cooperation by the activity of brain regions associated with the processing of social information.

Date Posted: December 5, 2018

Ecstasy as a Useful Pharmacotherapy Addition

Drugs have often been linked to a myriad of physical and mental health deteriorations, but in a recent study, it appears that a specific drug may in fact be useful in the alleviation of PTSD symptoms. Recent findings suggest that ecstasy’s role in eliciting euphoria users may help to alleviate PTSD symptoms in war veterans, firefights and police officers.

Date Posted: December 5, 2018

Resignation and Indifference

This article talks about people being indifferent to the self and apathetic towards everything in life, and how there is a chance of overcoming them.

Date Posted: November 27, 2018

Shop Till You Fight

Black Friday is arguably the shopping events of the year, not just in America, but in recent years has seen the spread to other countries as well. However, this celebratory event is often marred by reports of fistfights and heated arguments between consumers as they fight over discounted items. Though many would chalk it up to a simple case of bad manners, it could in fact be explained by the phenomenon of psychological ownership.

Date Posted: November 24, 2018