For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater […]M. Scott Peck: On the Wisdom and the Meaning of Life
Current governance interventions do not adequately address the everyday moral dimensions of this intimate quest. While abortion remains legal in India, prenatal sex determination has been criminalized since 1994. Awareness campaigns targeting sex selection, such as Gujarat’s “Save the Daughter,” have...
Bruun, 2023; Kleinman, 1988). Anthropologists Kohrt & Mendenhall (2016) shared that culture is fundamental in mental health discourse, as it influences symptoms, causes, and treatment of mental illness which are unique and distinct from other health problems. Mental health therefore squarely resides...
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The impact of diet on the microbiota composition and the role of diet in supporting optimal mental health have received much attention in the last decade. However, whether whole dietary approaches can exert psychobiotic effects is largely understudied. T
maternal stress and malnutrition, infection and hypoxic insult at birth have all been implicated as developmental triggers of SCZ, and these can be replicated in rodent models through manipulations such as prenatal drug administration, disruption of neurogenesis during gestational periods, neonatal ventral...
The holistic sense a person has of themselves is likely to be influenced and changed by new discrete experiences, while the meaning assigned to a specific experience is likely to be influenced by one’s sense of self. For example, an experience of becoming visibly angry might mean something ...
Given the wealth of papers that describe how active inference manifests in the brain and our behaviour, e.g., [1,2,3], we will not revisit this work here. Put briefly, this model suggests that living systems are able to actively avoid decay by generating predictive, self-fulfilling action...
For example, Clyde Hertzman at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver found that disparities in health - both between wealthy countries and between citizens within those countries - have far more to do with the anxiety and stress that inequality causes than with its impact on education,...