Justin Thomas

Increasingly our societies spawn self-serving, duplicitous individuals intent on getting what they want with negligible concern for fair play or human cost: to protect ourselves from the 'serpent class' we have to ensure robust systems of governance.

Psychiatric patients in the so-called developing world have better outcomes than their counterparts in developed nations.

This is New York, this is London, this is Abu Dhabi. Welcome to generation "I"; welcome to the age of narcissism.

Ibn Hazm, a scholar in Islamic Spain during the 12th century, proposed a specific imagery-based exercise to combat chronic envy, having his patients visualise that the person they envied came from a distant land.

Perhaps the proposed decline in childhood behaviour shares its roots with the rapid rise of the controversial and contentious psychological condition known as Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

Describe someone as a maniac or even as manic and the image of an erratic, wide-eyed, perhaps dangerous, individual comes to mind. Mania, however, has long been misunderstood.

Electronic Arts, an American-based video game developer, made the unprecedented decision not to release its latest title, Dante's Inferno, in the Middle East.

Between the ages of 16 and 65 in the UAE, there are 2.7 males for every one female, a skewed balance unsurpassed by any of the other 200-plus nations with available data.

Lifestyle should not be made so narrow as to be defined by what objects we choose to buy, or not.