Renowned psychiatrist Dr Thomas Szasz’s video on ADHD resurfaces: 'No behavior or misbehavior is a disease'An old video of psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz has resurfaced, sparking debate on mental health diagnoses. Szasz criticized the use of psych...
24 Mar, 2025, 06.02 PM IST
Predictions of AI-powered models strictly trial-specific, have no generalisability: StudyResearchers said the study showed that generalisations of predictions of artificial intelligence-based models across different study centre...
14 Jan, 2024, 03.21 PM IST
Does TikTok's viral self-care trend 'Bed-rotting' have potential to harm mental health? Here's what experts sayThis new social media trend called bed-rotting may be indicative of several mental health issues. Read on to learn all the details.
10 Jul, 2023, 04.20 PM IST
HealthifyMe appoints Stanford’s Shebani Sethi as chief medical officerShe will play an instrumental role in building HealthifyMe 2.0 where the larger organisational goal is to put metabolic health at its core ...
15 Nov, 2022, 11.41 AM IST
Psychiatry professor claims Jeffrey Dahmer was not psychopath, calls out NetflixProfessor James Fallon claimed that Jeffrey Dahmer suffered from a borderline personality disorder (BPD).
27 Oct, 2022, 06.23 PM IST
Researchers reveal therapy for treatment-resistant depressionFor years, DBS has been used to treat patients suffering from movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, tremor, and dystonia, and stu...
20 Aug, 2022, 07.23 AM IST
20 Indian scientists feature in Stanford University created global databaseThe CDRI scientists include Shrikant R. Mulay, Atul Kumar, Koneni V. Sashidhara, Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Manish K. Chourasia, Rakesh Maurya,...
07 Nov, 2021, 10.52 AM IST
One in three Covid survivors reported mental disorders within six months of recovery, shows studyAnxiety, at 17%, and mood disorders, at 14%, were the most common.
07 Apr, 2021, 06.19 PM IST
'Grave concerns' about Donald Trump's mental stability: Top US academiciansPresident Obama had questioned the 70-year-old business tycoon's judgement and temperament and called him "unfit to serve as president".
19 Dec, 2016, 08.02 PM IST
- Traumatic stress affects boys and girls differently: Study
San Francisco, Nov 20 (IANS) A new study suggests that a brain region that integrates emotions and actions appears to undergo accelerated m...
20 Nov, 2016, 07.10 AM IST
- fMRI brain scans can spot lies better than polygraph test
New York, Nov 4 (IANS) Scanning people's brains with functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, is significantly more effective way to...
04 Nov, 2016, 03.43 PM IST
Cannabis use can disrupt brain's information processingThe use of cannabis can produce psychosis-like effects and increased neural noise in humans, disrupting brain's normal information processi...
05 Dec, 2015, 10.57 AM IST
'Nutritional psychiatry can be an effective treatment'Nutritional psychiatry is a branch of science involving treatment of mood and anxiety disorders and psychiatric symptoms using nutrients.
20 Mar, 2015, 04.50 PM IST
Teen cannabis users have poor long-term memory in adulthoodTeens who are heavy marijuana users - smoking it daily for about three years - may have an abnormally shaped hippocampus and poor long-term...
14 Mar, 2015, 01.40 PM IST
Indian-origin professor Kamaldeep Bhui believes British jihadis 'depressed'Bhui interviewed more than 600 people in Muslim communities in Bradford and London to learn what drives Britons to risk their lives.
15 Oct, 2014, 09.12 PM IST
- 'Suicides aren't rare in Tihar'
Such incidents will continue unless measures like screening of inmates for risk behaviours, counselling and treatment for psychiatric disor...
12 Mar, 2013, 10.03 AM IST
- Indian doctor in UK admits to plagiarism but not dishonesty
Media psychiatrist Professor Raj Persaud has admitted to the General Medical Council that he plagiarised articles from other academics.
17 Jun, 2008, 12.07 PM IST