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Topic: depression

Pakistani actor Resham’s depression cure is ‘cry before God’, sparks off calls for ‘education’

Resham's remark on a PTV Home show did not go down well with Pakistanis. Dawn wrote an editorial while viewers spoke of creating more awareness about clinical depression.

IRS Shubhrata Prakash is talking of depression in a world of stiff, steel-frame civil servants

Shubhrata Prakash is India’s first civil servant to speak about mental health matters in an open manner.

Brain stimulation therapy can put an end to drug-resistant depression

Transcranial magnetic stimulation is a noninvasive, pain-free procedure that has minimal to no side effects, and often works.

Feeling winter blues? Small things you can do to tackle seasonal depression, uplift mood

Known as seasonal affective disorder (or Sad), it’s a type of depression that occurs only during specific seasons. But there's a simple way out.

Of mice, and men who stress them out: How scientists’ sex can affect lab mice’s reaction to drugs

Not only do mice prefer women to men, sex of the researcher affects their response to antidepressant ketamine, finds University of Maryland study published in Nature Neuroscience.

Houseplants don’t just look nice—they can also give your mental health a boost

Not having access to nature can affect our health adversely. It’s been linked to symptoms of depression and anxiety, as well as other conditions.

Chemical imbalance-depression link is gone. But that doesn’t mean antidepressants don’t work

Chemical imbalance theory wasn't the premise of medicine for depression, it was the opposite. The quest for better treatment must continue.

No, ‘chemical imbalance’ does not cause depression. And antidepressants aren’t the ‘cure’

Serotonin theory of depression started to be promoted by the pharmaceutical industry in the 1990s. New research shows there's no evidence for it.

Now, ‘party drug’ ketamine will work as a quick antidepressant? US researchers tell us how

US study published in 'Nature' shows that ketamine targets a specific group of brain cells to 'restore lost neural connections within hours', reversing depression temporarily.

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Population causes poverty is the devil’s philosophy. It causes prosperity: Sauvik Chakraverti

Crowded cities are rich because there is greater division of labour. The extent of the division of labour depends on the size of the market, wrote Sauvik Chakraverti in 2002.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.