In psychology the word ‘affect’ means mood/emotions. It is found that many people suffer from depressive symptoms during winter season! the symptoms are very similar to the psychological depression which is a kind of ‘mood disorder’. Such people may experience lack of interest and motivation to do things, may not want to socialize, may experience [...]
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S A D – Seasonal Affective Disorder
Posted in counselling, medical science, our mind, people, psychology, research, spreading awareness, thoughts and emotions, tagged depression, low day light, melatonin, seasonal affective disorder, serotonin, winter season on December 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
generous gene!
Posted in food for thought, genetic engineering, medical science, people, psychology, research, science, tit bits, tagged gene, generosity, harmone, research on December 11, 2007 | Comments Off
I read an interesting news item this morning in TOI – about the discovery of a gene in humans that is responsible for generosity! All these days psychologists thought that miserliness or generosity was a learnt behaviour. But that it has biological base is surprising! Researchers are saying that a particular gene is responsible for [...]
WORLD AIDS DAY
Posted in HIV/AIDS, counselling, diseases, education, empowering, food for thought, medical science, our mind, people, science, sexuality, society, spreading awareness, tagged AIDS, CD4 cells, HIV, immunity, sexuality, stigma on December 1, 2007 | Comments Off
December 1st is celebrated as World AIDS Day to spread awareness to people about the disease AIDS and how people can help prevent it, how we can reduce the stigma attached to it through disseminating information.I thought I would take this opportunity to explain to my readers what exactly AIDS is and what HIV is [...]
Epilepsy
Posted in Epilepsy, children, counselling, disability, diseases, education, empowering, food for thought, medical science, our mind, people, psychology, science, society, spreading awareness, stigma, thoughts and emotions, tit bits, youth, tagged brain, CT scan, Epilepsy, fits, janardhan, jhonty rodes, medication, neural disorder, seizure, stigma on November 18, 2007 | 6 Comments »
yesterday was world epilepsy day – a day to bring awareness to public about epilepsy, a neurological disorder wherein there is a disturbance in the normal electrical activity of the brain. this disturbance causes seizures (‘fits’ in lay person’s language). it may affect the consciousness or the behaviour or the sensory perception of the affected [...]
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