Archive · 23 Sep 2025
Seminar on Mental Health and Fungal Infection Research
A recent seminar focused on mental health challenges, especially for students, like stress and social media use.
Experts discussed the impact of stress and how to cope with it.
Simultaneously, scientists are working on a new way to fight a dangerous fungal infection called systemic candidiasis.
The research uses computers to understand the fungus and find its weaknesses.
They hope this will lead to new treatments because the infection can be hard to treat.
Techno India University held a seminar on clinical psychology and mental health awareness.
Psychologist Sumantra Chattarji spoke at the seminar.
The seminar addressed tension, stress, anxiety, social media addiction, and dependence on AI.
Researchers at IIT Madras developed a unique approach to fight Candida albicans.
Findings were published in the journal Cell Communication and Signaling
- Who
- Sumantra Chattarji and researchers from IIT Madras
- What
- Seminar on mental health and study on fungal infection
- When
- Last week (seminar)
- Where
- Techno India University Campus and IIT Madras
- Why
- To raise awareness of mental health and find treatments to a fungal infection
- Seminar Topic
- Clinical psychology and mental health awareness, research on fungal infection
- Featured Speaker (Mental Health)
- Sumantra Chattarji
- Location of Seminar
- Techno India University campus
- Focus (Seminar)
- Tension, stress, anxiety among students; social media addiction; dependence on AI
- Fungal Infection
- Systemic candidiasis
- Fungal Infection Research Lead
- Karthik Raman of the WSAI, IIT Madras
- Fungal infection fatalities in India
- 63 per cent
- Where Candida Albicans is found in the body
- mouth, throat, gut, vagina and skin