As painful memories are repeatedly replayed, could the brain’s remarkable plasticity sometimes work against itself? Umair AshrafConsider a medial temporal focal seizure. There may be no dramatic collapse and no violent convulsion. Awareness simply becomes altered. A person may suddenly lose track of where they are, forget what they were doing moments earlier, or fail…

When power changes hands, principles should not change sides Anil Kumar SharmaWhenever we discuss corruption, our conversation almost invariably turns towards the person who has taken a bribe, accumulated disproportionate wealth or misused his position. We identify the corrupt officer, the businessman, the middleman, the contractor or the politician who has been caught. But there…

What are we doing to make our neighbourhoods safer for children? Protecting a child is not somebody else’s duty. It is ours. Dr. Fiaz Maqbool Fazili Child abuse is not merely a crime problem. It is a warning about the environment we are creating around them. A child in Budgam. Another, barely into adolescence, in…