After 22 years of failed treatments, including rehabilitation, psychotherapy and an array of psychiatric medications, a middle-aged Dutch man decided to take an extraordinary step to fight his heroin addiction. He underwent an experimental brain surgery called deep brain stimulation (DBS). At the ...
Date Posted: February 13, 2014
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BANGKOK - The popular 'selfie', a popular trend among many is now linked to mental and low self-esteem disorders.
Popular among the youngsters it is said to cause addiction and negative impact on them.
The Thai Mental Health Department has warned ...
Feb 13
Categories: Self-Love
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University of California, Berkeley, researchers have shown that chronic stress generates long-term changes in the brain that may explain why people suffering chronic stress are prone to mental problems such as anxiety and mood disorders later in ...
Feb 12
Categories: Stress Management
GOWhen you really think about it, kissing is an odd human behavior. You know, all the rubbing of our faces all over each other. So ...
Feb 12
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The death of Phillip Seymour Hoffman has sparked some strong and seemingly contradictory responses. What these reactions show is that many people find it hard to think of addiction as being anything except either a choice or a loss of free ...
Feb 12
Categories: Addictions
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There are few things more personal than one's aesthetic taste. When you really connect to a piece of art or music, it touches something deep inside. It moves you in a way that often escapes words. But what's going on in your brain when you are moved ...
Feb 11
GOThis short video presentation explains why we get butterflies in our tummy whenever we have to get up in front of an audience or when ...
Feb 11
Categories: Anxiety
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Keeping a marriage together takes effort. And care. And maybe even watching classic romance movies, like The Way We Were or Husbands and Wives. And this is because of the conversations such movies can start.
That's the finding from a study in the ...
Feb 11
Categories: Relationships & Marriage
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In the mid-nineteen-seventies, the cognitive psychologist Ellen Langer noticed that elderly people who envisioned themselves as younger versions of themselves often began to feel, and even think, like they had actually become younger. Men with ...
Feb 10
Categories: Mindfulness
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Many children were among the victims of typhoon Haiyan, with one school in the Tacloban area of the Philippines losing 59 of its pupils. Médecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) psychiatrist Frederique Drogoul describes a mental health programme that will ...
Feb 10
Categories: Mental Health in Asia, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma ...
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Outgoing, conscientious, friendly people who are open to new experiences tend to be happier than those who are more shy, unadventurous, neurotic and unfriendly. It's easy to imagine why this might be so. Barely studied before now, however, is the ...
Feb 10
Categories: Happiness
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New research from psychologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst finds that while a majority of adults cite the ability to compete with friends as their primary reason for playing online casual video games, they report differing perceived ...
Feb 8
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Whether you're wondering what color to paint the office, or you're looking to redesign your retail space, the colors you choose can increase your chance of reaching your goals. Color greatly influences human emotion and behavior. If you're hoping to ...
Feb 8
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Oxford University researchers have identified an area of the human brain that appears unlike anything in the brains of some of our closest relatives.
The brain area pinpointed is known to be intimately involved in some of the most advanced planning ...
Feb 7
Categories: Executive Functions
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You wouldn't believe the amount of ink spilled by neuroscientists and psychologists attempting to explain the simple fact that we can't tickle ourselves. A popular, long-standing theory posits that the self-tickle failure occurs because of the way ...
Feb 7
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PHILIPPINES - "A MENTAL illness is just like any other illness," said Dr. Laureen Conanan, chief of Southern Philippines Medical Center's Institute of Psychology and Behavioral Medicine (SPMC-IPBM), and that mental illness can also take various ...
Feb 7
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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