SINGAPORE It is a question that has puzzled mental health experts in Asia for some time: Why are so many elderly Asians committing suicide? The past decade has seen astonishing spikes in the rate of Asians over 65 choosing to end their lives early, particularly in the region's economically ...
Date Posted: February 20, 2014
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Suicide Prevention
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Some people recall a dream every morning, whereas others rarely recall one. A team led by Perrine Ruby, an Inserm Research Fellow at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (Inserm/CNRS/Université Claude Bernard Lyon has studied the brain activity of ...
Feb 20
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First it was Doodle Jump. Then Dots. And now - will it never end? - Flappy Bird.
So many of the games that we download on our smartphones are a waste of time, but we can't seem to stop playing them. My current high score on the late, lamented ...
Feb 19
Categories: Addictions
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MALAYSIA is lacking in clinical psychologists to deal with the mental health problems of the people and maintain their psychological wellbeing.
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said there were only ...
Feb 19
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Mental Health Professions
GOPhilip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from ...
Feb 19
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Toxic chemicals may be triggering the recent increases in neurodevelopmental disabilities among children - such as autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and dyslexia - according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) ...
Feb 18
Categories: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Autism spectrum ...
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The option to abandon a project might just strengthen your resolve to complete it, according to a study published in Psychological Science.
The study, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvanis and Georgia State University, is ...
Feb 18
Categories: Workplace Issues
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How does a man feel if another man opens a door for him? The researchers Megan McCarty and Janice Kelly conducted a field study to find out.
Male research assistants waited near two university building entrances and looked out for men and women ...
Feb 18
Categories: Self-Confidence, Self-Esteem
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Journalist Scott Stossel was so anxious at his own wedding that he had to hold on to his new bride in order to steady himself at the altar. His clothes were by then soaked through by torrential sweat. At the birth of his first child, with his wife ...
Feb 17
Categories: Anxiety
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Scientists know there is a strong genetic component to bipolar disorder, but they have had an extremely difficult time identifying the genes that cause it. So, in an effort to better understand the illness's genetic causes, researchers at UCLA tried ...
Feb 17
Categories: Bipolar
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Moderate or heavy smokers who quit tobacco get a boost in mental wellbeing that, for people who are anxious or stressed, is equivalent to taking anti-depressants, a study said Thursday.
British researchers examined 26 published investigations into ...
Feb 15
Categories: Addictions
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I'm a very logical person. I’m an intellectual. I was raised that way and I remain that way to this day. Likely, because of that, it's more obvious to me than many that logic can be used to deal with bipolar emotions. I can separate my logical ...
Feb 15
Categories: Mood Swings / Bipolar
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Research from the University of Adelaide shows that although mental health screening of children at ages 4-5 can help to predict mental health problems in future years, only a quarter of children can be accurately identified with such screening.
Feb 15
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development
GOCan perfectionism ever be useful? This was the question floated at the outset of an arresting keynote at the 2014 conference of the BPS's Division of Occupational Psychology. Paul Flaxman began by asking his audience to jot down helpful and hurtful ...
Feb 14
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Psychologists Elizabeth Dunn and Lara Aknin, along with Michael Norton of Harvard Business School, report that the benefits of helping others "are evident in givers old and young in countries around the world, and extend to not only subjective ...
Feb 14
Categories: Happiness
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With Valentine's Day around the corner, you may be thinking of pairing up two friends for a date. If you follow your instinct to play Cupid, it'll pay off in happiness - not necessarily for the new couple, but definitely for you.
According to new ...
Feb 14
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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