20.05.23 Daily [Telangana] TSPSC Current Affairs

The government has decided to introduce aninsurance scheme for toddy tapperson the lines ofRythu Bheema Insurance schemebeing implemented for farmers in the state.

Chief ministerK Chandrasekhar Raohas directed excise minister V Srinivas Goud and finance minister T Harish Rao to prepare guidelines for the insurance scheme.
Under the insurance scheme, if any Toddy tapper dies in an accident, the family will get Rs 5 lakh insurance like Rythu Bheema.

The chief minister said many toddy tappers are losing their lives accidentally falling from palm trees and the government wanted to come to the rescue of the families.

Using a new visualisation tool known as false fluorescent neurotransmitters, neuroscientists at The University of Queensland have discovered how vitamin D deficiency affects developing neurons in Schizophrenia, a serious mental Health disorder.

In a nutshell, the study, which comes a day after World Schizophrenia Day is marked,highlights the importance of vitamin D in brain development and the potential impact of deficiency on the onset of the mental condition.

Schizophrenia is associated with many developmental risk factors, and while the precise neurological causes of the disorder remain unknown, the mental health disorder is associated with a pronounced change in the way the brain uses dopamine.