How To Help Those In Need

WOULD you know NOT to grab a visually impaired person by the arm to steer them along? Or would you be in a position  to help someone in and out...

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...