by admin | Apr 20, 2021 | Blog
“I had three CEOs on the phone to me crying”: Leaders’ mental health needs urgent attention By Sophie Deutsch 14 April, 2021 Leaders’ mental health may be crumbling, but as the public face of a company, CEOs often feel undue pressure to ‘have it all together’. “The...
by admin | Nov 4, 2019 | Blog, Case Study - OCI
The insurance Council of Australia recently confirmed that more than 55% of claims are currently Mental Health and Stress related and growing rapidly. For those living with a mental illness they need to be able to better access support to create more mentally healthy...
by admin | Jul 14, 2019 | Blog
https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/concussions-should-be-top-priority-for-nrl-20190712-p526tw.html After the stunning State of Origin decider in which the Blues’ James Tedesco lunged across the line for a last-minute try and instant elevation to the pantheon of sporting...
by admin | Jul 14, 2019 | Blog
Steve Folkes, the late, great Canterbury player and coach, is the first Australian rugby league player to be diagnosed with a brain disease commonly linked to repetitive head injury in American sports. The local discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)...
by admin | Sep 21, 2018 | Blog
Differences in intelligence have so far mostly been attributed to differences in specific brain regions. However, are smart people’s brains also wired differently to those of less intelligent persons? A study published by researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt...
by admin | Sep 21, 2018 | Blog
Most people agree that getting a little exercise helps when dealing with stress. A BYU study discovers exercise under stress also helps protect your memory. The study, published in the journal of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, finds that running mitigates the...
by admin | Aug 27, 2018 | Blog
Most medical disorders have well-defined physical characteristics seen in tissues, organs and bodily fluids. Psychiatric disorders, in contrast, are not defined by such pathology, but rather by behavior. A UCLA-led study, published in Science, has found that autism,...
by admin | Aug 27, 2018 | Blog
Being born with a “tabula rasa” – a clean slate – in the case of the brain is something of a curse. Our brains are already wrinkled like walnuts by the time we are born. Babies born without these wrinkles – smooth brain syndrome – suffer from severe developmental...
by admin | Aug 27, 2018 | Blog
Most medical disorders have well-defined physical characteristics seen in tissues, organs and bodily fluids. Psychiatric disorders, in contrast, are not defined by such pathology, but rather by behavior. A UCLA-led study, published in Science, has found that autism,...
by admin | Aug 27, 2018 | Blog
Physicists have devised a new method of investigating brain function, opening a new frontier in the diagnoses of neurodegenerative and ageing related diseases. This new non-invasive technique could potentially be used for any diagnosis based on cardiovascular and...
