Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Animals become healing companions in Mexico hospital

Nine-year-old Alessia Ramos gently pets a hamster at a Mexican hospital where animals ranging from Australian parakeets to a Siberian Husky are being used to provide mental health therapy.

"It helps me to relieve my anxiety, to control my emotions, to relax and be more focused," said Ramos, who has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.

Premature celebrations

The rift in Turkey's relations with the United States - prompted by its decision to acquire a Russian missile defense system in defiance of Washington's objections - in tandem with the consolidation of the Greece-Cyprus-Israel alliance  has, not unjustifiably, raised national expectations over Greece's geopolitical future.

An artist's studio becomes his shelter in the Greek storm

Foreign art writers and curators have been paying attention to Greece for a few years now, curious about what kind of art the crisis and a number of significant events have resulted in. But the fact is that they have tended to focus their curiosity on contemporary art, graffiti and photography.

Parliamentary budget report: Further delays in review bring new memorandum closer

The latest report from the parliament’s budget office is a slap in the face for the Greek government and its negotiating tactics. The report warns that any further delays in the completion of the second review would lead to a fourth memorandum, while noting that the procrastination would result be more costly.

A failure form the get-go

Given how matters have been handled by the government so far, the cabinet reshuffle would have been a failure from the get go.

For instance, if it were a stock market move the outcome would have been a foregone conclusion and hence it would have been flopped.

Don't 'overshare' your business on social media

Content creation matters because we are living in an attention economy. Attention economics is an approach to the management of information that treats human attention as a scarce commodity, and applies economic theory to solve various information management problems. Put simply by Matthew Crawford, "Attention is a resource?a person has only so much of it.