Sleepsmart, learn easy

Without adequate sleep, new skills may not get encoded into the brain's memory circuits

Hold that phone!

Early memory loss

For a good night's sleep

Most urban Indians dread bedtime. Sleep disorders ensure that 93 per cent of the people living in cities don't sleep well or worse, are not able …

When I abandoned movies, yoga came to my rescue

For Aashiqui actor Anu Aggarwal, yoga brought happiness and also provided tools to find it

Overabundance of a protein one of the causes of Parkinson’s disease: study

Parkinson’s disease results in declining physical functions, most noticeable of them being uncontrollable tremors

The good that smoking does

Studies suggest smoking protects against diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, but many scientists and funding agencies are not convinced.

A matter of the mind

Mind-body medicine: in the realm of the possible but wholly inexplicable, this loose curative system has more takers every day

Striking out strokes

The discovery of a new drug, TPA, provides succour to hapless nervous stroke victims. Most importantly, the drug helps in arresting serious and …

The last frontier

THE CEREBRAL CODE: THINKING A THOUGHT IN THE MOSAIC OF THE MIND·William Calvin· Bradford Book, MIT Press

Fear is the key

harles Darwin spent 20 years perfecting his ideas on evolution and how it operates. What motivated him to channelise his energy and focus for so …

Read this properly

Recognised specifically as a brain disease uptil now, reading disorders are now linked to the language concerned

Why no cover for mental illness? Supreme Court asks Centre, regulator

Actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death brings issue back in focus

Simply Put: What before NRC

India wants to be TB-free by 2025, but patients suffer due to stigma, lack of counselling

There is evidence of increased risk of suicidal behaviour among people living with TB

Talk about delusions

Non-drug therapies are gaining ground worldwide to treat patients with schizophrenia

Lighting hazards

Developing frenzy

BRAINWORK

INSANE VIRUS

The hare-brained gender

Molecular solutions

Nurr-1, a key harmonal protein, might lead to a therapy for Parkison's disease

Get out of doldrums

Low spirits can upset the heart's rhythm and increase the risk of coronary diseases

Highs and lows

Science now has a way to prevent premenstrual syndrome

Mind over matter