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Key to mental fitness - work the brain
Scientist says that exercise is the key to mental fitness.

Workers' mental injuries may be covered - ACC
Workers caught up in last month's Christchurch earthquake may be eligible for emotional trauma compensation from ACC even if they weren't physically hurt.

Bail for accused looter with autism
Police have relented and allowed bail for a young man with autism who became "the face of looting" in the days after the February 22 quake.

Charlie Sheen has unveiled a new 'winning' tattoo
The 45-year-old actor unveiled the etching on his wrist during his début hour-long radio show Sheen's Korner, in which he also denied claims he suffers from bi-polar disorder, proclaiming himself instead to be "bi-winning".

Christchurch earthquake: Doctors counselled after 13 staff unaccounted for
The co-owners of the health clinic flattened in the collapse of the CTV building were receiving counselling yesterday and expressed their sympathy for the families of missing staff.

Man in 'catatonic state' since child abuse images found
A 23-year-old student has been in an almost mute, catatonic state since he was found with child abuse images on his computer.

Search for families of 'forgotten souls'
Oregon's state mental hospital is trying to match surviving relatives with 3,500 people whose cremated remains were once stacked away in a storage area dubbed the "room of forgotten souls."

<i>Gill South</i>: Motivational motives
Gill South sits down with leadership coach Sally Anderson to have herself pushed in the right direction.

Till death do us part: Why marriage leads to a long life
A study of the benefits of relationships has confirmed a truth that many have long held to be self evident: marriage is good for you.

Celebrity mum's baby blues
Margarita Politis is a glamorous 42-year-old woman who once appeared in a magazine with celebrity psychic Kelvin Cruickshank, excited they were having a baby.

Back to work: Tools to turn inner chaos to calm
The festive season glow is fading as the reality of the year ahead sets in. Lisa Bradley reports on how to keep the return-to-work blues at bay and deal with the challenges ahead.

Self-help books may have opposite effect
In 2005, Micki McGee, a lecturer in sociology at Fordham University, New York, published Self-Help, Inc: Makeover Culture in American Life.

Human remains thought to be from Nazi euthanasia project
Austria announced plans to exhume graves containing the remains of 220 suspected victims of Nazi Germany's infamous euthanasia programme yesterday.

Beat the back-to-work blues
The holiday is over and that sinking feeling has set in - it's back to work, back to reality.