Tag - mental-health

 
 

MENTAL HEALTH

WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 3, 2017
Researchers develop app that boosts memory in people with cognitive decline
A brain training computer game developed by British neuroscientists has been shown to improve the memory of patients in the very earliest stages of dementia, and could help such patients avert some symptoms of cognitive decline.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
May 21, 2017
Having trouble wrapping your head around Japan? Help with mental health is at hand
Black Eye speaks with professionals trained to offer guidance to those struggling to cope with a new environment.
EDITORIALS
May 21, 2017
Address the concerns of mental patients
The government must address concerns that treatment programs for people who have been discharged from mental hospitals is not intended to keep them under surveillance.
COMMENTARY / World
May 20, 2017
Trump's disability is Dunning-Kruger effect
We're all ignorant, but U.S. President Donald Trump takes it to a different level.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Apr 16, 2017
Schizophrenia support exists in Japan, but state is wary of stepping in
A reader asks, 'Is there some system in Japan for the police, ambulance or hospital to take an unwilling schizophrenic patient to hospital?'
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 17, 2017
Trump highlights downside of 'Goldwater rule'
The American people and the world deserve to know the psychological profile of the U.S. president.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Oct 23, 2016
Time to consign 'death by overwork' to Japan's history
As 'karoshi' continues to steal young lives, workers must stand up for their own rights and watch out for their colleagues' wellbeing.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 11, 2016
Britain royals mark World Mental Health day aboard London Eye
Britain's Prince William, his wife, Kate, and brother, Harry, took a ride on the giant London Eye ferris wheel on Monday as they helped mark World Mental Health Day.
EDITORIALS
Aug 29, 2016
Trying to make sense of Sagamihara
The treatment of people committed to mental hospitals is under scrutiny in the wake of the Sagamihara mass slaying.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2016
Argentina's 'Loony Radio' making waves
A radio program in Argentina that draws 12 million listeners is produced by patients at a psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Aug 2, 2016
Sagamihara mass murder exposes flaws in mental health system
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced that the government will seek further measures on compulsory hospitalization, but experts warn that more focus should be placed on aftercare to prevent such an incident from happening again.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jul 6, 2016
Amnesty report cites forced cannibalism, rape, death, trauma as South Sudan turns 5
Mass killings, rape, torture, abductions and forced cannibalism have led to an increase in mental illness in South Sudan, with patients routinely housed in prisons due to an "almost total" absence of mental health care, a rights group said on Wednesday.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Jun 13, 2016
Healthy aging has little to do with age
When it comes to maintaining health in your older years, age means little and obesity may not be so bad after all.

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