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Technology

How Smartphones and Social Media Rewire Our Brains: A Neuroscience Perspective

Digital media and technology have become deeply intertwined in our lives. Without even realising, it has slowly and deeply strengthened its roots in our daily life, for example, the moment we wake up, the first thing we do is check

News

Sudha Murthy: Urges Mandatory School Counsellor Specifically to support Child Sexual Abuse Survivors 

During the second part of the budget session of Parliament, Rajya Sabha member “Sudha Murthy” said that it is essential to make school counsellors mandatory, especially to support children who are survivors of child sexual abuse. Counselling would give children

Health Relationship

Hypervigilance in Post-Relationship Adjustment: Why the Brain Stays on Alert

Leaving a toxic relationship is supposed to feel like freedom. And in many ways it does, but for a significant number of survivors, freedom arrives accompanied by an unwanted passenger: a nervous system that cannot stop scanning for danger. Doors

Pets

PE(T)ALKS

Daffy: “You humans talk a lot, fight a lot, cry and love a lot too! Well, so do we! We communicate a lot with you and also understand you better than you humans!  How? Here is our story!” According to the

Awareness

Perfectionism as a Transdiagnostic Risk Factor

Perfectionism has been found to serve as a risk factor across diagnoses. The unending need to become “better” at something, essentially the ability to do something “better” today than you did yesterday, propels us into a state of perfectionism. Success and perfectionism

Therapy

Ketamine Therapy: A New Hope for Depression

Consider a clinical environment in which the quality of care in treating depression has been stagnant at almost 40 cents. The trial-and-error clinical experience of antidepressants, be it selective serotonin reuptake (SSRI) or serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), offers little more

News

LPG Cylinders Shortage: Panic Among People

The ongoing conflict among the Middle East countries has affected the LPG supplies across the states of India. This has created panic among the public, wherein people are stocking cylinders and endlessly buying induction. As a result of this, an

Education

Attention Restoration Theory: How Nature Recharges the Human Mind

Mikhil is a 27-year-old corporate employee. He has been working for the past 5 years in his current firm, which is very far from his home. He has to drive almost 1 hour to reach his office. Recently, he has

Editor's Choice Parenting

Attachment Styles in Surrogate Mothers: An Opinion

Surrogacy used to be morally incorrect and socially strange. Now it’s a standard method of making individuals reproduce in most countries. Couples and individuals get an actual chance at parenting with the help of surrogacy, especially couples who deal with

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Breaking the Stigma: Why PTSD Is More Than “Just Stress”

PTSD, or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, is widespread and is considered a serious global mental health concern. About 3.9% of the global population is suffering from this condition, and is prevalent in areas affected by violence, natural disasters, and wars. Sadly, this