Healthcare, The NHS, People & Training
I recently saw a documentary about a boy called Morad who had been tortured because he was suspected of trying to seduce a girl. As a result he lost the ability to speak and disconnected himself from reality. In order to avoid hospitalisation he was sent for dolphin therapy. It was really interesting to see [...]
The definition of dementia according to Wikipedia: Dementia (taken from Latin, originally meaning “madness”, from de- “without” + ment, the root of mens “mind”) is a serious loss of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging. It may be static, the result of a unique global brain [...]
Un cerveau bilingue est un cerveau sain. Présidents des deux langues peut avoir des défenses supplémentaires contre l’apparition de la démence et la maladie d’Alzheimer, voilà selon la nouvelle recherche a annoncé ce week-end à l’Association américaine pour l’avancement des sciences de réunion à Washington, DC. Psychologue Ellen Bialystok et son équipe ont étudié plus [...]
Schools, employers and GPs all have more of a role to play in mental-health care in the UK, ministers say. Investment in recent years has focused on improving treatment, but the new 10-year strategy calls for more emphasis on prevention and early intervention. In particular, it highlighted the importance of helping people back into work [...]
People who smoke potent skunk are more at risk of psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia than those who use other types of cannabis, scientists suspect. According to new research, regular users double their risk of psychosis but heavy skunk users increase theirs seven-fold. UK experts have a theory it is down to skunk’s composition – [...]
Statistics show than in Britain one in 10 can’t sleep at night. New online treatments for insomnia could be the cure that is only a click away? Of course there are those who are critical of this new treatment such as Jim Horne who claims that: “The more personal the approach between the person who [...]