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By Dr Shikha GrayEvery year, National Diabetes Week is held in July as an opportunity to raise awareness of the challenges of living with diabetes. This year, from July 12 to 18, the focus of National Diabetes Week is on mental health. Given the extraordinary circumstances we all find ourselves in, this is an apt, important and timely topic of...
By Daniel Quin,
It’s stating the obvious but men do experience work, school, relationship, and personal stress. What is concerning is approximately one in five Australians will experience mental symptoms, each year. For men and women the most common mental health problems are anxiety and depression. However, where men differ is their seeking of help for their wellbeing. Men are significantly less likely to...
Why do we place so much more importance on our body than our mind? For comparison, look at two ways you manage your physical health – a visit to your GP versus working out at the gym. You go to a GP to treat a medical problem; you feel symptoms and seek treatment to return to your “normal” state. By contrast,...
Edited by Jill Wright,
What an interesting week. As the Prime Minister pledged more consultations and "good government", including a fresh look at savings on health spending, on Wednesday evening I attended a lecture at the State Library by visiting Danish medical researcher Professor Peter Gøtzsche, who as founder of the Nordic Cochrane Centre is devoted to establishing the scientific evidence for medical research....
Edited by Jill Wright,
The Australian Medical Association - the professional association for our doctors and medical students - says that it is committed to "enduring professional values, excellence in teaching and research and the delivery of high-quality health care to all". You'd therefore expect, when it comes to giving advice to young people on mental health, that it would be particularly careful about...
Edited by Jill Wright,
You might remember, next time you congratulate a child for an achievement, that it's better to praise her effort, than to tell her how clever she is. I learned to do this some years ago, and had long forgotten where, but it's encouraging to learn that research by a clinical psychologist studying the way the brain works supports this approach. ...
Edited by Jill Wright,
The New York Times is doing its best to help students get better results, with another article on the research of clinical psychologists which shows how most of the conventional strategies for remembering stuff you've learned don't help at all when it comes to exams. If you want to get better exam results, says the article's author, Henry L. Roediger III,...
Edited by Jill Wright,
According to the British Psychological Society's Research Digest, it's time for psychologists toiling away in Melbourne, or for that matter anywhere else in Western countries, to take into account the fact that a lot of people actually don't want to be happy. New Zealanders, for instance, actually fear happiness, having developed something of a national consensus that joy gets followed...
Edited by Jill Wright,
Interested in a healthier brain? You might want to listen to a Shrink Rap Radio interview with neuropsychologist Dr John Arden. Arden's latest book, The Brain Bible, offers some scientifically-backed advice - as opposed to various fads and gadgets offered on the internet - on practical things you can do to improve and sustain your brain health, and therefore your...
Edited by Jill Wright,
It's encouraging to discover that despite its name, Wired magazine actually isn't as enthusiastic as one might have imagined about the benefits of zapping one's brain with electricity. Its plea for caution on the part of enthusiasts for transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) using comparatively inexpensive headsets is an admirable piece of common sense. While the people who sell the...