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Mental Health Awareness Month – Dignity in Mental Health

Every human interaction represents an opportunity for one person to treat another with dignity.

Kan Alzheimer so vertraag

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Schizophrenia-prone boys who try pot experience changes in brain development: study

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Depression study finds evidence of serotonin signal transduction disturbances

Depression and anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric disorders.

Schizophrenia seeds sown in early life

Cardiff University researchers discovered that a gene known to be involved in the mental illness is active in newborns.

Anxiety And Depression Linked To Stress Causing Gut Bacteria

Anxiety and depression could be caused by the gut bacteria living inside the digestive tract according to scientists from the […]

Groot deurbraak in Alzheimer-behandeling?

’n Middel wat kan keer dat Alzheimersiekte vorder, kan later dié week onthul word.

Guide to College Student Mental Health

Experts say that mental health disorders among college students are on the rise, which has made the mental and emotional […]

Position for a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University

Position for a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University A postdoctoral position is available […]

SA needs to invest in mental health services – professor

Johannesburg – South Africa needs to invest in mental health services and research, says psychiatry professor.

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