Mental illness in Africa: Go for community-centred approach, advise experts

Africa has very few psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers working in mental health and psychiatric nurses

Low academic performers prone to higher stress: study

Psychologists have observed that children and adolescents are facing enormous anxiety and stress in the course of their academic programmes, …

World Mental Health Day: COVID-19 pandemic has worsened our mindscape

Survey after survey from across the world have indicated that the pandemic is increasing mental health problems

Study finds genetic variants that increase ADHD risk

Researchers identify 12 regions in the genome, changes to which increase the risk of developing Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Scientists provide new insight into bipolar disorder

Researchers find that patients carry some residual impairment in terms of processing of information even in their normal phases

There is a link between heat and mental health; and climate change is making it more pronounced

There has been an increase in footfall at major psychiatric hospitals in the country since March, an unusually hot month this year

How music psychology can boost mental illness identification

Researchers from IIIT Hyderabad use datafication of music to find how listening strategies reveal about our current mental state

Novel cure on the horizon for dementia patients

People with dementia can get back their normal lives. Researchers at Queensland Brain Institute have managed to reverse dementia symptoms in mice.…

Is the pandemic over? We asked an economist, an education expert and a public health scholar their views

Pandemic or not, it is important to continue investing in the development of improved vaccines and bolstering the preparedness of the medical and …

Why conceptual health is need of the hour

Fixing work hours, monitoring daily growth should be practised as remedial measures for a healthier life

How childhood infections and antibiotics may increase risks of mental illness

Hospitalization for an infection might leave you at greater risk for mental illness, according to a recent study

Here are the top 10 things we should do to improve our mental health

As an individual and a part of a healthy society, we need to adopt these methods to prevent mental illnesses from affecting us

International Youth Day: Education needs transforming for children’s mental health

The younger generation has to be equipped with resilience and ability to handle pressures and challenges by inculcating academic excellence and …

More adults than ever have been seeking ADHD medications — an ADHD expert explains what could be driving the trend

Amid the growing online community of newly self-diagnosed people with ADHD, many probably did not actually have the condition

ADHD: Inattention and hyperactivity have been the focus of research — but emotional problems may be the missing link

Many mental health conditions may be linked to a unified, genetically determined problem of “synaptic pruning”

Massive project on African DNA sets out to close the knowledge gap on mental illness

Research on genetic basis of mental illness has so far largely excluded populations that are not of European heritage

Memory, attention difficulties often part of normal life

There are two main reasons healthy adults experience difficulties with their memory and/or attention: highly demanding lives and normal age-…

New drug can reverse failing memory

Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health develops molecule to help those at risk of cognitive problems

Vitamin D deficiency in newborns increases schizophrenia risk

Study affirms link, raises hope for early prevention of disorder by treating deficiency in pregnant women

Mental health insurance likely to reduce stigma

Many suffering from mental disorders avoid treatment due to the stigma attached but IRDA's directive asking insurance companies to provide …

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