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A breakthrough in neuroscience could revolutionise psychological care   In the future, specialists may be able to insert a tiny implant in the body – not much larger than a grain of rice – and with it relieve, cure or otherwise correct a great number of ailments and conditions. It sounds like science fiction, but […]

Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have published a study hypothesising that during human evolution (when the cerebral cortex was developing), thousands of regulatory elements, described by the researchers as ‘genetic dimmer switches’, were highly active. The switches show that the human brain developed very differently from those of other animals, in the case […]

According to a ground-breaking national study conducted recently, hundreds of thousands of Australian children and teenagers are experiencing serious mental health issues, but their parents are ill-equipped to provide them with the support they need, if indeed they know a problem even exists. Many parents are completely unaware as to what’s going on with their […]

A new report sheds more light on the health profile of Australian employees. The study jointly conducted by the University of Wollongong and the Workplace Health Association Australia (WHAA) analysed health conditions of employees over a five to 10 year period. It found greater rates of inactivity, stress, and higher body mass than national averages. […]