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Visual Agnosia and Achromatopsia: Understanding the Brain’s Visual Disorders

Imagine walking up one Sunday ready to begin your day. It seems like a regular day, and you reach for your favourite newspaper… just to realise that suddenly you can’t read it. No matter how hard you try, words have lost

Research

GLP-1 Receptor Agonists as a Potential Treatment for Binge Eating Disorder

Binge eating disorder is one of the most common eating disorders, but despite that, it remains hard for people to find medications that would be efficient and, at the same time, not harmful to health. That is why the latest

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Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED): Causes, Symptoms, and Effective Interventions

After working hard during the day, Aman was driving home. He had faced many challenges and stress while at work, then something happened that surprised him. A cyclist rode in front of his car suddenly. Aman couldn’t believe it! Aman

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Reactive Attachment Disorder? Causes, Symptoms, and Intervention

A child learns about love and trust from the relationship they share with their carer. The treatment they receive from their carer shapes how they view the world. However, when a child is neglected and abused, the sense of safety

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Mental Disorders Overtake Cancer and Heart Disease as the World’s Biggest Cause of Disability

Mental disorders have become the leading cause of disability across the world, overtaking cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and musculoskeletal disorders, according to a major global study published in The Lancet. Researchers say the findings reflect a worsening mental health crisis affecting millions of people

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Emotional Dysregulation as a Core Mechanism in Personality Disorders

We often confess to reacting in an overwhelmed way, shouting in anger, uncontrollable crying and impulsive behaviours. This affects our daily routine, work, relationships, and mental health. Emotions are a way of expressing our feelings strongly and help us to

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Interoceptive Prediction Error in Panic Disorder: The Hidden Mechanism Behind Panic Attacks

Sheetal is a 21-year-old B.Tech graduate student. She is currently in her 4th year and is focused on bagging a placement. Twelve companies have already completed their interview for the placements, out of which Sheetal was not even eligible for

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When Nothing Feels Good: Understanding Anhedonia in Mood Disorders

Approximately 70% of individuals diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) experience anhedonia, the progressive, pervasive loss of the capacity for pleasure, motivation, and connection that researchers now recognise as one of the most clinically significant and most persistently undertreated features

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Fear of Separation: An Anxiety Disorder

When I first started going to pre- primary school, I saw my friends, including me, also crying so much before entering the classroom, hugging their parents tightly with a feeling of fear and did not want to come inside the