The Central Institute of Psychiatry (CIP) is set to organise special training sessions for cops to identify mental illnesses in undertrial prisoners and provide necessary support in an ...

Mental health awareness programmes and interventions have helped reduce some of the stigma associated with mental illness, said the chief executive of a 50-year-old psychiatric hospital.  Speaki...

Ben Stokes was not included in their squad, but England have brought left-arm quick Tymal Mills back for the T20 World Cup which begins next month in the UAE. All-rounder Stokes is taking an indefini...

Dr Jai Ranjan Ram is a senior consultant psychiatrist and co-founder of Mental Health Foundation (www.mhfkolkata.com). Find him on Facebook @jai.r.ram.7 ...

Another Bollywood production, another setback for issues related to mental health. Srijit Mukherji has come out with his take on Satyajit Ray’s work. He begins the anthology on a wrong-footing. ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday expressed serious concern over the alleged violations of human rights of women in mental health institutions like tonsuring of their head and lack of privacy and asked t...

Before Covid struck, Samar Banerjee, 78, would go out for a walk every morning and spend hours chatting with friends sitting on benches on the lawn of his housing complex. For more than a year, he ha...

I’m a 43-year-old working woman. I lost my husband at 29 and delivered a child after that. My priority has always been my child and I’ve brought her up single-handedly. I’ve never ne...

The pandemic and prolonged school closure have caused regression in learning, affected the mental health of children and hurt their social and communication skills, a parliamentary committee has said....

• ECT is NOT ‘shock therapy’ • It does not affect speech, intelligence and personality • It does not cause brain damage • It is a form of treatment and not punishmen...