Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Psychologists suggest that parents should limit rather than eliminate their children’s TV watching and computer game play. One hour a day during the school week, and not more than two hours on weekends, would be a reasonable goal for TV watching. In addition, parents should, they suggest, eliminate violent programmes from
Karan SHAH responds to ThinkWellness questionnaire: Your view on beauty? The argument is as old as time: whether beauty is subjective, or objective. Yet, the clichéd riposte is: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This does not relate to physical beauty, but something that is desirable and not necessarily perfect. We are obsessed
Words: Kerry DULIN It is an accepted fact that our body’s ability to produce human growth hormone [HGH] diminishes considerably as we age, starting immediately after puberty. Studies show that as early as age 26, your body may be producing less than half of the growth hormone that it did at age 18. By age
Dr D B NANDINI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? It was, to use a metaphor, my childhood dream, to be a doctor. This was also primarily because I always wanted to be that ‘go-to’ person who could provide relief to anyone suffering from pain. What made
Words: Jawahar NIDAMBOOR Though creativity isn’t a prerogative of supreme beings, the Homo sapiens is riding the wave of evolution, thanks to human ability and appetite for innovation, and the emergence of great machines, and harnessing of energies, which have transformed the face of Earth. It’s a revelation. Yet, one cannot be sure whether this
Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV Just think of your free time: of how do you select where to put your energies, going on the premise that in a day there is so much time available, and so much energy to do the work you would like to do. Or, is there a principle you could follow
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR It is no great shakes to think of psychology as the study of human consciousness, not to speak of its manifestations in human behaviour. Because, what is fundamental to consciousness is something that most of us know only too well: perception, desire, will, and the ability to act. Even though all
Words: Dr Christine LASCHKOLNIG Homeopathy not only offers help when the body rebels, and the past catches up with the present, but also when relationships reach a point of crisis — often cumulating in the feeling of being trapped and having lost one’s freedom. In many cases unresolved problems and enmeshments with parents stand in
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR You know its import, don’t you? Or, so you thought. Either way, whether you are a physician, parent or an educator, you are right. It’s all about a new — or, old — phenomenon that is gaining ground everywhere. You’d call it a case of an entire subculture gone askew, but
Surabhi KARIGHATTAM responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Your view on beauty? The definition of beauty and/or being trendy has changed, or metamorphosed, all through history. While corsets, bonnets, and petticoats were the rage in the late 18th century, they seamlessly transitioned into the iconic flapper dresses in the 1920s, a look culminating in a stylish bob.
