A study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has shown that neurons in our brain 'mirror' the space near others, just as if this was the space near ourselves. The study, published in the scientific journal Current Biology, sheds new light on a question that has long preoccupied psychologists and neuroscientists regarding the way in which the brain ...
Date Posted: September 9, 2013
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Malaysia - A NEW test will be introduced for applicants to teachers' training colleges, the Education Ministry announced on Monday.
The assessment will gauge whether they have the mental resilience to be teachers in today's fast-paced, ...
Sep 7
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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Stacey Kite, Robert Gable and Lawrence Filippelli of the Johnson & Wales University, in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, surveyed more than 4200 students about their knowledge of potential risks, appropriate use, and their behaviors on the internet ...
Sep 7
Categories: Bullying, Child Development
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If parting with possessions is a serious problem, you can now be officially diagnosed with hoarding disorder.
Stuff, stuff and more stuff. Many of us love to buy and keep things, even when the items are not useful. About 70 percent of children ...
Sep 7
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Behavioral abnormalities are traditionally thought to originate in the brain. But a new study by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found that inner-ear dysfunction can directly cause neurological changes ...
Sep 7
Categories: Inattention, Impulsivity, & Hyperactivity (ADHD)
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People who get away with cheating when they believe no one is hurt by their dishonesty are more likely to feel upbeat than remorseful afterward, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.
Although people predict ...
Sep 6
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Despite two decades of investment in improving mental health services, the mental health of Australians has not improved. This may be because haven’t been spending money on the right approach and need to place greater emphasis on prevention.
In ...
Sep 6
Categories: Adult psychological development
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Inflammation could provide early warning sign for disease later in life
Children with behavioral problems may be at risk of many chronic diseases in adulthood including heart disease, obesity, diabetes, as well as inflammatory illnesses (conditions ...
Sep 6
Categories: Child and/or Adolescent Issues, Child Development, Health / Illness / ...
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50.9 percent of Hong Kong’s high school students display symptoms of depression, according to a report by Hong Kong based newspaper Mingbao.
The recent survey, conducted from October 2012 to June 2013, accessed the mental status of more than ...
Sep 6
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
GOSingapore - Mental illness can be cured and thinking otherwise would be one of the major misconceptions that the Singapore Association for Mental Health (SAMH) wants to eradicate. It joins other skewed perceptions such as, mental illness is ...
Sep 5
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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The first systematic review of related research confirms a positive impact on cognitive function, but an inconsistent effect on mild cognitive impairment.
Over recent years many pieces of research have identified a link between adherence to a ...
Sep 5
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Whether it is supermarkets or traffic, there are two possible explanations for why you feel the world is against you, explains Tom Stafford.
Sometimes I feel like the whole world is against me. The other lanes of traffic always move faster than ...
Sep 5
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Pasung is the Indonesian term for restraints or restrained. It is used to refer to shackles, but can also refer to being locked in a room or confined in a shed or animal pen.
From January 2011 through the end of 2012, I spent time photographing ...
Sep 4
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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Does the sight of soap bubbles, aerated chocolate or a lotus flower seed pod bring you out in a cold sweat and make you feel panicky? If so, you could be a sufferer of one of the most common phobias you have never heard of – trypophobia, or the ...
Sep 4
Categories: Phobias
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The rich really are different — and, apparently more self-absorbed, according to the latest research.
That goes against the conventional wisdom that the more people have, the more they appreciate their obligations to give back to others. Recent ...
Sep 4
GOBrendan Cowell is haunted by shadows. His best mate. Friends. Their fathers. All lost to suicide. "They were friends and then suddenly it was like they were never there," he says of his teenage years growing up in Cronulla. "There was usually two ...
Sep 4
Categories: Suicide Prevention
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