MUMBAI: Modern medicine plans to achieve more than a change ... with ‘cures’ for problems faced by children like shyness, overeating and fidgetiness. The sales-pitch is unambiguous ...

Eventually she found treatment that worked. The report also opens a window into the broader field of temperament research. Even garden-variety shyness worries parents, particularly fathers of boys ...

But is shyness is a mental health condition that should be treated? And if so, when and how? In March of this year Murray B Stein, Professor of Psychiatry and Family & Preventive Medicine at the ...