Social Media and the Workplace

It is Chinese New Year, you are enjoying a meal with family when suddenly your phone pings. Your boss has sent you a virtual red packet on WeChat. Do you tuck the phone in your pocket and turn your attention back to your family, or respond right away? Increasingly in...

How Green Is Seen

Numerous studies have reported the mental health benefits of contact with green landscapes. However, the mechanistic and neural bases of why such landscapes drive positive mental health outcomes have remained poorly understood until now. “This study uses functional...

Feeling Bored? Pay Attention to This

Dr Christian Chan’s least favourite emotion is boredom. To keep boredom at bay, he has kept his research pursuits varied and wide-ranging, from sleep and mentoring to the impact of natural disasters on mental health. And like many people, he has also turned to his...

Easy Warning System

A team led by Professor Ng Siu Man in the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, have made a major breakthrough in the detection of risk and prevention of relapse in schizophrenia with the development of an innovative assessment scale. Unlike existing...