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NMC Sets up National Task Force to Address Mental Health of medical students

A nationwide task force has been established by the National Medical Commission (NMC) to investigate the reasons behind medical students’ suicide and depression. Using evidence to enhance health outcomes is the goal of the Mental Health Task Force’s recommendations. A

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Intellectual Disability: Symptoms, Causes and Treatment

The term “intellectual disability” is replaced by “mental retardation” by DSM-V as it has negative connotations, is offensive and raises misunderstandings about the nature of the disorder. Intellectual Disability refers to cognitive deficits in intellectual functioning – intelligence, reasoning, planning,

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7 Tips to Deal with Midlife Crisis

In the movie, Eat, pray, love the protagonist Elizabeth Gilbert (played by Julia Roberts), goes through a phase where she feels lost and dissatisfied with her occupation and lifestyle. She expresses her longing by saying that she wants to feel

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Disruptive Behavior Disorders: Causes, Impact and Treatment

You have seen children throwing tantrums, while this is normal, if these tantrums are persistent and cause disruption in activities of other people that can be a problem. Disruptive behavior disorders are a group of mental health conditions which are

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What Is Conformity?

Imagine you’re asked to be the participant in a psychological experiment. You’re sitting in a room with a group of 8 other people. A presenter is standing in front of you, showing you plaque cards of different colours. The experiment

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Bois Locker Room: Psychological impact and its interventions

We often heard these narratives like “Let it go,” “Ignore them,” “It is normal”, “Girls, you should have been more careful,” “Boys will be boys” and so on. Every woman at some point in her life must have encountered such

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Effectiveness of Psychotherapy

“I don’t feel like doing anything, nothing is working out in my life, I can’t sleep, or eat, why is god doing this to me? “ It is just a phase…” The other day, on a moonlit promenade after a

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Classical Conditioning: A Simple Exploration through Ivan Pavlov

Ding!Ding! You hear the school bell ring and it is lunch break, you immediately open your tiffin box and start eating. Why do we automatically open our tiffins to eat as soon as the bell rings? This association of the

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Is It Possible To Work With Schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder in which a person’s thoughts are distorted that makes them interpret the reality in a different or an abnormal way. Schizophrenia impairs the daily life functioning of an individual and could even make a person

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The Power of Vulnerability

Kaira’s character from the movie ‘Dear Zindagi’, played by actor Alia Bhatt, is seen at the beginning of the movie as someone who has a guard up and is scared of showing her real self to those around her. But