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Mental Health Status of Adolescents in South-East Asia Region. Mental health and substance use disorders are one of the biggest and prominent contributors to the regional and global burden of disease. If we look at the overall scenario, more than 6% of the global burden of disease is attributed to these disorders. As stated by World Health Organization's Global Health Estimates 2015, self-harm or suicides was the second most common cause of mortality after road accident injuries among the people of age group of 15-29 years in the region of South East Asia. Now these days, there is a dual form challenge which presented by Mental Health Problems. First is Public Health and second is Development issue in low and middle income countries and may be central to achieve different Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Proper addressal mechanism and recognition criteria of mental health needs will help a lot to young people in the long run to function better academically, socially a...

Have you seen the movie the movie ' MY NAME IS KHAN'?  Do you know which disease  RIZWAN (Shahrukh Khan) was suffering from? It was  aspergen syndrome. You might notice two things of Rizwan in that movie......... 1. He was much smarter than other folks. 2. He was facing problems in communicating with others. let us know something  more about this: Aspergen syndrome is a disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interactions and non verbal communication along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviour and interest. Social-behavioural symptoms can begin as early as infancy. Characteristic differences are seen in social development, but these changes are hard to identify in toddlers and may be attributed to another condition or not perceived as abnormal. Most cases of Asperger's syndrome are identified when the child is school-aged or older; studies have shown an average age at diagnosis of 11 years. Some of the symptom...

Albert Einstein began playing the violin when he was 6-years-old. By the age of 13, he was playing Mozart's sonatas. Einstein once said, "Life without playing music is inconceivable to me. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music ... I get most joy in life out of music."                                             Musical training has the potential to change brain structure and function when practiced for a long period of time. The anatomical differences have been found between a musician’s and a non-musician’s auditory and motor cortices and neural connectivity linking these areas. Practicing musical instrument can lead to structural changes after only 15 months in early childhood. These changes correlate with improvements in certain motor and auditory nerve cells and structural ...

Importance of Oxygen for Brain Health. We all know that oxygen is one of the most essential thing that human brain needs for better and proper functioning. We are knowing many ways to keep our bodies to grow and keep healthy. We know that we all need a good balance diet and regular exercise for our body. What about our brain ? What does it need to be able to grow, to heal and to learn in the best way it can ? What are the elements of balance that will affect brain and recovery ? A good diet is a great start. Our brain has a lot of structures just like other body parts, and it needs to be fed well. But these are other things that are less talked about. If we are going to intentionally care for our brain we need to know about body balance in ways that we don't often hear about. Specifically, we need to do as many things as possible to get the best circulation of blood to the brain that we can. This is so important because our blood is the carrier of oxygen to our brain and o...

Leg exercise is important and significant for the brain and it boosts the health of the nervous system . Neurological health is an interactive relationship with our muscles and our world. Our neurological health depends as much as on signals or vibrations sent by the body's leg muscles to the brain as it does on directives from the brain to the muscles. The new study fundamentally alters brain and nervous system, medicine and its giving doctors new clues as to why patients with motor neuron disease, multiple sclerosis, spinal muscular atrophy and other neurological diseases after rapidly decline in their physical movements becomes limited. The study supports the idea that people who are inactive and unable to do load bearing exercises such as patients who are bedridden or even astronauts who have gone on extended travels, they do not only lose muscle mass, even their body chemistry is deeply altered at the cellular level and their nervous system is adversely impacted. T...

               Generalized Anxiety Disorder Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is characterized by persistent and excessive worry about number of different things or even about everyday life events. People with GAD may anticipate disaster and may be overly concerned about money, health, work or any other issue.    what are symptoms:     1. excessive and ongoing worry and tension    2. restlessness    3. muscle tension    4. headaches    5. difficulty concentrating    6. trembling GAD affects 6.8 million or 3.1 percent of population in any given year. Individuals with GAD find it difficult to control their worry . they may expect the worse even when there is no reason for concern. GAD is diagnosed when a person find it difficult to control worry for more than 6 months and have at least 2 to 3 symptoms. This order come...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - Symptoms, causes, diagnosis and treatment. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder of PTSD is a mental health disorder that is triggered by a frightening or scary event or incident either by experience or witnessing it. Symptoms may be taken as flashbacks, nightmares and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable thoughts about that incident. Most people who witnessed traumatic events may have temporary difficulty in adjusting for the situation and coping it, but as the time gets passed and good self care, they usually get better. If the symptoms gets worse, they will last for weeks, months or even years, and interfering into the day to day life, then you may have caught with PTSD. * Getting effective treatment after PTSD symptoms develop can be critical to reduce symptoms and improve functions. Symptoms of PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms may start within one month of a traumatic or painful incident, but sometimes symptoms may not ap...