Sleep Paralysis is when one is wide awake but finds that he or she is being restricted from any movement as if the body was paralyzed. It usually starts with waking up from a good sleep you were having but feeling uneasy about it. You couldn’t breathe or sit up, you might even spot a shadow at ...
Date Posted: August 17, 2018
Categories: Sleep Disorders
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This article talks about how ADHD affects boys and their future performances in school, work and ability to fit into society
Aug 17
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Attention Deficit ...
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A video game is specially created to find out if video games can increase empathy in children and how learning the respective skills can affect brain activity. The video game is called “Crystals of Kaydor”. It is about a space-explorer robot ...
Aug 16
Categories: Child Development, Emotional Intelligence, Empathy
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This article explains how suppressing worries from a health scare might lead to intense fear and emotional distraught.
Aug 16
Categories: Fear, Health Psychology
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“Neurodiversity” suggests that there is no such thing as having normal or abnormal cognitive abilities. Instead, they are socially constructed ideas to justify different behaviors.
Aug 16
Categories: Health Psychology
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How do you know when your child is displaying symptoms of psychological distress, and when is it just simply "growing pains"?
Aug 15
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Child and/or Adolescent ...
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Conspiracy thinking is not always a symptom of psychological pathology.
Aug 15
Categories: Other, Paranoia / Suspiciousness, Prejudice / Discrimination
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This article talks about 3 classified learning disorders, how to recognize them and conquer the new school year.
Aug 14
Categories: Intellectual Disability, Learning Difficulties
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Why were the perpetrators in the Abu Ghraib scandal protected?
Aug 13
Categories: Aggression & Violence, Bullying, Prejudice / Discrimination, ...
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Evolutionary psychology is the study of how elements of human behaviour can be accounted for in terms of its importance to our survival. Certain characteristics of human behaviour came about because it aided the survival of our predecessors, whereas ...
Aug 13
Categories: Other
GOAccording to Dr Maggie Wright from The Wright Psychology and Learning Centre, it is important to identify children who struggle with school work early to improve their prognosis. She mentioned that there are mainly 3 learning disorders present in ...
Aug 8
Categories: Adult ADHD, Learning Difficulties
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Researchers believe that a significant number of people diagnosed with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder may actually have a treatable immune system condition.
Aug 7
Categories: Bipolar, Mood Swings / Bipolar, Schizophrenia
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Many teens are unaware of their mental states and fail to identify potential mental health problems. Even if they realize they need help, they may be too afraid to reach out for help due to shame.
Aug 3
Categories: Mental Health in Asia
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Most people are not good at detecting a lie, as they focus their attention on behavioral cues. For example, to tell if someone is lying, we tend to look out for signs of nervousness. However, such cues may not exist, or may not be observable.
Aug 1
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Researchers find that a deficiency of acetyl-L-carnitine is associated with a particular subtype of depression. Individuals with very low levels of this molecule often have highly severe symptoms and don't respond to traditional antidepressants.
Jul 31
Categories: Depression
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Children with autism have a social reward circuit that is different from healthy children. During an MRI scan conducted, scientists discovered that the social rewards circuit of children with autism is not as active.
Jul 28
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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