Browsing Facebook has become a daily activity for hundreds of millions of people. Because so many people engage with the website daily, researchers are interested in how emotionally involved Facebook users can be with the social networking site and how regular use can affect their mental health. ...
Date Posted: February 4, 2015
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Chances are you know someone struggling with Parkinson's disease, who lost their life to multiple sclerosis, who has been irreparably harmed by concussion or is trapped within the confines of autism spectrum disorder. Or perhaps you've watched ...
Feb 3
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People in Cambodia experience what we Americans call depression. But there's no direct translation for the word "depression" in the Cambodian Khmer language. Instead, people may say thelea tdeuk ceut, which literally means "the water in my heart has ...
Feb 3
Categories: Depression, Mental Health in Asia
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Compulsive overeating and sugar addiction are major threats to human health, but potential treatments face the risk of impairing normal feeding behaviors that are crucial for survival. A study published January 29th in the journal Cell reveals a ...
Feb 2
Categories: Addictions
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The battle against teenage suicide has entered the digital age as a Hong Kong company is developing a game app to identify at-risk teenagers.
Mark Altosaar, who has a background in education technology, and Jamie Chiu, a doctoral candidate in ...
Feb 2
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Suicide Prevention, Teenage Issues
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Traumatic life events such as bereavement can impact on physical as well as mental health, according to work led by Scottish researchers who found that losing a partner or family member does not just impact on levels of anxiety and depression, but ...
Feb 2
Categories: Ending a relationship issues, Relationships & Marriage
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Movies = Moving image on the screen
Do you know that the sense of motion is created by your brain from a series of static images?
Typical movies, for example, flash 24 frames per second. Somehow, the brain takes the changes from one frame to the ...
Jan 31
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Why all-nighters don't work: How sleep, memory go hand-in-hand
Scientists have long known that sleep, memory and learning are deeply connected but how has remained a mystery. The question is, does the mechanism that promotes sleep also consolidate ...
Jan 31
Categories: Teenage Issues
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Have you ever realised that you were dreaming while you were in a dream? This is also known as lucid dreaming. New research have shown that lucid dreaming leads to better problem-solving abilities.
Pbetter problem-solving abilities, new research ...
Jan 31
Categories: Mindfulness
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People with the noble New Year's resolution to work out or work out more should mark their calendars: That resolve starts to waver in the third week in January, data shows.
Jan 30
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Violent offenders who are also psychopaths are so dangerous because their brains do not learn normally from either punishments or rewards, a new study finds.
Jan 30
Categories: Aggression & Violence
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More often than I care to admit, I'll walk from one room to another with a clear vision in mind of whatever I need to do once I get there, but then I get there and can't remember why I started. The only thing that happened between my first movement ...
Jan 29
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A new study by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) found that the measure of brain inflammation in people who were experiencing clinical depression was increased by 30 per cent.
Jan 29
Categories: Depression
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Our society worships talent, and many people assume that possessing superior intelligence or ability - along with confidence in that ability - is a recipe for success. In fact, however, more than 35 years of scientific investigation suggests that an ...
Jan 29
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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Tantrums, irritability, self-injury, depression, anxiety. These symptoms are associated with autism, but they’re not considered core symptoms of the disorder. Researchers from the UNC School of Medicine are challenging this assertion. They have ...
Jan 28
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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SINGAPORE - Depression is hitting young people hard, and a growing number are choosing to seek help.
The Institute of Mental Health (IMH) helped 600 people aged 20 to 29 last year, compared with 550 the year before. Similarly, the National ...
Jan 28
Categories: Depression, Teenage Issues
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