9 Ways To Spot A Narcissist
WE ALL know that narcissist in the group: the person whose bloated sense of self is disproportionate to his or her actual merits.
The term “narcissist” has been liberally deployed in...
16 Ways To Beat Stress
STRESS, anxiety, disruptions and low productivity - welcome to today’s workplace.
Singapore’s workers continue to lead the pack when it comes to the number of hours they work according to...
4 Tips On Handling Adolescents
HERE are some tips for encouraging good behaviour and strengthening positive brain connections:
1. Educate your adolescent about his developing brain.
Understanding the neuroscience behind this important period of growth might help teenagers...
Building A Healthy Brain
ADOLESCENTS are supposed to go through the shenanigans that drive their parents crazy.
The ‘adaptive-adolescent’ perspective of the adolescent brain, can be tricky to embrace —the more so for parents...
Inside the Adolescent Brain
IN A longitudinal study of 1,800 teenagers over 13 years at the American National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Dr Jay Giedd, has shown that the brain seems to...
The Adolescent Brain – Crazy by Design
WE TEND to think of adolescence as a time of turbulence; a crazy, tumultuous period in human life that is often marked by stormy arguments, sullen silences, hormones run amok...
Soothing The Itch
Finding a good fix for his own itch led Jason Humphries to scratch his head in search of a solution.
Humphries’ search for respite from his fungal infection led him...
Stemming The Flagrant Cells
Those who are shouting that stem cell therapy is the next big thing are on shaky ground reckons researchers in the field. By Basia Chow
The past decade has seen...
Selling Wonder Cells
There’s no such thing as the fountain of youth. There is, however, science, and the possibilities that stem cell research offers. By Basia Chow
This was the stuff of science-fiction...
Simply Useful
Billionaire Manoj Bhargava plans to give away 99% of his wealth to help the poorer half of the world, and he wants to use Singapore as his base of...