Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR There is substantial evidence to support the view that TV viewing can promote aggressiveness in children. Yet, by way of a paradox, TV viewing may also be beneficial. TV and computer/video games connect children to society, and to deprive your child of access to what other children are engaged in, puts
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Our brain has a fundamental influence on our ‘mindful’ experience, not to speak of conscious responsiveness. It has a demonstrable pattern, or synergetic symmetry, no less. Yet, when consciousness is ‘measured’ in conventional parlance, the emergence of conscious experience seems mystifying. The argument is simple; also profound. While it is agreed
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Decoding our life’s experiences, or perspectives, isn’t a problem so long as we are connecting them to comprehensible paradigms, contexts, or stated connotations that they convey to us. The whole idea, however, gets lost when we twist, or redefine them, while fitting them into totally new perspectives, or hooking them to
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning — thinking, remembering, and reasoning — and, behavioural abilities to such an extent that it interferes with a person’s daily life and activities. These include memory, language skills, visual perception, problem solving, self-management, and the ability to focus and pay attention. Some people with
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR All of us are ‘proprietors’ of our thoughts, feelings, and emotions. The troika is the open, also sublime, anchor of our psyche. This is why we feel disconnected when we lose our touch with our old emotional state. We feel desolate when we are marooned by any negativity. It is only
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It is rightly said that wisdom is not just dependent upon information, but also knowledge, although it is limited in one’s perimeter of thought. This is primarily because knowledge is never absolute, howsoever intelligent, or brilliant, one may be. The idea includes the genii, no less. The tipping point, or scale,
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Our body functions with a dynamic balance. It is this balance that helps direct all functions of life. This is called homeostasis. In other words, keeping things static or constant. Our body is somewhat like a spinning wheel. So long as it is spinning, or working, dynamically, all our body systems
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Conflicts, as we all know, are part and parcel of life and career. They may sometimes be resolved by a long shot. Sometimes not. Difficult or fluid conflicts often lead to contentious situations. Knowing the basics of effective conflict management is one good way of dealing with conflicts that cannot be
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Air travel is a fact of modern life, what with millions of people opting for it, every day, wherever you look, or turn — this is its huge upside. There is ironically a trifling, albeit tangible downside too — thousands of air-travellers suffer, or have suffered, from ear pain, or discomfort,
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Critics, or sceptics, argue that glucosamine adherents have an ostentatious pitch: that the nutritional supplement has ‘the unique ability’ to provide pain relief and help regenerate damaged tissue in joints. They ask: is this a well-orchestrated, or subtle marketing gimmick, or pitch — one you should run after and take? Some
