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It was a cold Tuesday morning. I had just been posted to a psychiatric hospital for my National Youth Service (NYSC). With different scary thoughts running through my mind, all of my mother's worries only made them worse. Scenes of someone biting me were on constant replay in my head. Many people, not just me, feel this way and have the same worries. How do you react when someone that looks "unstable" is walking towards you? This, and other thoughts, further compounded my fears.... click article on the right to Read More.
We hurriedly chanted as we rushed back to our platoon officers to pick our posting letters. It's been an eventful three weeks at the NYSC orientation camp, Ipaja Lagos and it's time for a year of wearing the green khaki and responding to greetings like corper shun! Even though I had never been excited about this scheme, I looked forward to serving my nation in one of the choicest place of primary assignment. I joined the queue, alongside other members of my platoon..... click article on the right to Read More.
The global financial crisis could have profound implications for the health spending plans of national governments and unless countries have safety nets in place, the poor and vulnerable will be the first to suffer, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned. Dr. Harry Taiwo Ladapo, the Chief Medical Director of Federal Neuro Psychiatry Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, in this interview with CHUKWUMA MUANYA, x-rays the situation and proffers solutions to keeping sane in the midst of the financial meltdown.
MENTAL HEALTH: MYTHS, STIGMA AND AWARENESS.
Dr SONAIKE M.D
“Youths obey the clarion call; let us lift our nation high.
Under the sun or in the rain, with dedication and selflessness.
Nigeria's ours,... 
MENTAL HEALTH - THE MYTHS AND FACTS
DR. ADEDOYIN A. A
It was a cold Tuesday morning. I had just been posted to a psychiatric hospital for my National Youth Service (NYSC). With different scary... 
SLEEPLESSNESS/INSOMNIA: FACT FILES
What is insomnia?
Insomnia results when an individual start experiencing the following: difficulty falling asleep at bedtime, undue wakefulness in the night, early... 
How To Keep Sane In The Face Of Financial Crisis
The global financial crisis could have profound implications for the health spending plans of national governments and unless countries have safety... 
5 ACTS OF NEGLIGENCE NURSES MUST AVOID
The Oxford advanced learner’s dictionary defines negligence as failure to give somebody or something enough care or attention. Applying this definition of... 
TRAINING AND MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT
As an accredited post-graduate trainer for psychiatric Residency, the hospital takes in doctors for the six-year training on a yearly basis.
Medical students from... 
MYTHS AND FACTS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND ALCOHOL
The issues of substance abuse and alcohol though, have received wide attention world wide and studies are on-going into many aspects but it is still... 
Mental Spirituality
The Former Medical Director, Neuro Psychiatric Hospital Yaba speaks to Adebayo Waheed on the hospital, treatment of mental disorder and the need for the establishment of a... Medical
Research
Hospital Pioneers Research on Biological Psychiatry On Wednesday, 28th September, 2011, the hospital hosted a seminar titled “Building capacity for Neurobiological research: Endophenotype-based...Training
