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Awareness

Anxiety and Apathy Affect Decision Making in Opposite Ways 

Making decisions in the face of uncertainty is an essential aspect of daily living. According to a study from the University of Minnesota Medical School, indifference and anxiety result in essentially different ways of making decisions. These results offer important information

Technology

Can Brain-Boosting Gadgets Actually Improve Mental Performance? 

Have you ever lost your car’s parking location or forgotten a coworker’s name? What person wouldn’t want a basic app to improve their mental acuity in our ever-tougher world? The appeal of “brain training” games and applications that promise to improve processing

Positive

The Art of Slow Living: Finding Balance in a Fast-Paced World

In today’s fast-paced world, where everyone is looking towards upgrading their life, the idea of slowing down seems very counterintuitive. Productivity and relentless self-promotion has been so glorified that people have forgotten to live in the moment and enjoy little

Technology

Productivity Apps: Improve mental well-being or create stress?

Productivity apps have undoubtedly changed the way people work, how they manage tasks and have implications for productivity itself. These apps have transformed how people organise and manage their tasks, influencing habit formation as well as monitoring habits as they

Education News

NIMHANS M.Phil Clinical Psychology Admission 2025-26

The National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) offers well recognized two years full time M.Phil in psychology which is RCI approved. It offers a full-fledged training with regards to the psychological testing diagnosis and treatment of the mental

Awareness

Be a Peer: Become an Empowered and Responsible First Aider in Mental Health + (ve) Community

With emerging trends nowadays about ‘mental health’ and ‘mental health awareness’ has led to more and more people to talk about it on an open platform. Crowding on various social media platforms about a large chunk of information regarding mental

Therapy

CBT for Treating GAD among School Children/Adolescents

Mental Health includes Emotional, Psychological and Social well-being. Any individual can suffer from mental health problems irrespective of their age and gender. It is imperative to take care of our mental health and people must agree to the fact that

Technology

AI companions and Mental health: Can Virtual Companions reduce Loneliness?

You may have noted that AI companions are an intriguing yet complex phenomenon in this modern age. This event has caused various psychological effects on the human mind, both beneficial and detrimental. With the rapid advancement of AI systems, including

Awareness

Hue-man: A New Sensory Superhero in town

Sensory Experience Have you ever heard of a condition that allows individuals to hear colors or see letters as specific hues? Every time you hear someone’s name a colour pops in your mind. Rohan sounds blue and Lisa sounds so

Industrial

Neurodiversity in the Corporate Ecosystem

In the year 1998, Australian Sociologist Judy Singer introduced the world to the term neurodiversity. Her idea was to promote neuroinclusion of the neurodivergent individuals (NDs). Neurodiversity movement has for long been in vogue in the western countries like Canada,