Seven chemicals that should be blacklisted to prevent obesity

Here's a list of obesogens identified after a decade of research 

From hypertension to cancers, alarm bells ringing in India’s tribal belts

Tribal people are facing triple burden of diseases

Boxing sharpens the mind

Memory loss by inches

Dieting anxiety could reduce memory instead of calories

Will you kill yourself?

Or can your tendency towards suicide be anticipated and stopped?

Where mind matters

Childhood blues

Head injuries and childhood infections may lead to obsessive compulsive disorders

Radio in the brain

Brain tremors

Reinforcing the nerves

Gene therapy may help cure degenerative brain disorders

Knock outgenes

Participatory approach

The 'executive arm' of the brain also helps in making decisions

Gender and direction

Men and women use different parts of their brain for navigation

Road 'sense'

Judgement bay

We now know the neurons that help the brain recognise errors of judgement

More brain for language

A third language area identified in the cortex

Why social media health check must include Global South

There is plenty of evidence showing how social media use can affect youth mental health but studies often omit the developing countries of the …

Depletion of particular brain tissue linked to chronic depression, suicide: Study

Astrocytes, a kind of supportive nerve cells, were found in much lower quantity in people who died by suicide

‘I felt immense grief’: A year on from bushfires, Australian scientists need mental health support

The fires destroyed almost everything on the western half of Kangaroo Island. Most of Kangaroo Island’s glossy black cockatoo population …

Depression, anxiety, trauma stress, bipolarity, schizophrenia: Unaccounted costs of conflicts

New estimates by WHO indicate the world has grossly underplayed the problem

Mental health should be at centre of sustainable development: Lancet

Lancet Commissioners on global mental health and sustainable development urge governments to place mental health at centre of sustainable development

Living near forests might improve mental health, but urban greenery not effective: study

Scholars find surprising results after studying the relationship between local geography and the structural integrity of brain

Troubled by illness, 385,000 people committed suicide between 2001 and 2015

At least four per cent of India’s population suffers from poverty because they have to incur huge expenses for treating their illness

Getting the psyche right: Mental Health Care Bill 2016

Rajya Sabha passed the Mental Health Bill on August 8, 2016. We tell you why is it revolutionary for mental health care in India

India, China share global burden of mental illnesses

The overall population growth in India explains a greater proportion of the increase in mental, neurological and substance-use disorders