BBC Nepali weekly discussion Program
bbc nepali weekly discussion featured the discussion on mental health on 15th November 2014 with mental health activist Matrika Devkota and psychiatrist Dr. Arun Raj Kunwar. The discussion was focussed specially on depression led suicide and other mental health problems in general. The symptoms and effects of depression , the mentality of people with regard […]
Democratising Mental Health
PRIME is a program to generate world class researches on the implementation and scaling up of treatment programs for priority mental disorders in primary health care centers in the low income group countries. This video shows the need to integrate mental health in the primary health care system i.e from health and sub health post […]
Scientists create ghosts!!
In a first, Swiss researchers have succeeded in recreating a ghost illusion in the laboratory. Researcher Olaf Blanke’s team at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland was able to recreate the illusion of an unseen “presence” — akin to those reported by patients suffering from neurological or psychiatric conditions — in the laboratory […]
Mind Matters
MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS! The Kathmandu Post has an editorial (September 10) which we must ponder about it: Last week, Hari Sada, a native of Udayapur district fell off a six-storey building in Qatar and died. In a cruel twist of fate, on Monday, the very day his dead body arrived in Nepal, his 24-year-old wife, […]
Shift work ages your brain
In a groundbreaking research it has been proved that shift work dulls our mind. Working antisocial hours can prematurely age the brain and dull intellectual ability, scientists warn. Their study,in the journal Occupational and EnvironmentalMedicine, suggested a decade of shifts aged the brain by more than six years. This finding is instrumental in the study […]
Use of alcohol, smoking and drugs found to be major causes of psychological problems
In todays Nagarik news article, it is reported that use of alcohol , smoking and drugs are the major causes for psychological problems like depression, anxiety and psychosis. Mostly the male population from cities and the outbound workers returned from overseas have been reported for such problems. For the full news click the link below […]