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Giulia Lombardo
Jan 8, 20205 min read
Mindfulness: How to become a Jedi?
“A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind… All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never...
Jessica Trinetti
Nov 6, 20197 min read
DOES SOCIAL NETWORK ADDICTION EXIST?
Almost twenty years have passed since the birth of the digital world (Berners Lee 1999). The creation and subsequent rise of the Internet...
Jane Chang
Nov 6, 20193 min read
More Fish, Better Attention? It Really Depends.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is quite common. It affects about one in 20 children and is three or four times more...
Carmine Pariante
Oct 8, 20195 min read
Is Kung Fu good for your health? Yes — and also for your body and mind
It’s the 20th anniversary of The Matrix, one of the best Kung Fu movies ever. The Matrix. And, in a totally unrelated coincidence,...
Francesco Catania
Oct 1, 20194 min read
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures” — A photographer’s creative journey into expressing…
Walking on an empty street of London: the illuminated windows, the colours and the shadows are always different. Behind every window...
Inspire the Mind
Sep 3, 20194 min read
People always want to know about stress and how it affects our lives
Not surprisingly (perhaps because we are the Stress, Psychiatry and Immunology Laboratory — the SPI Lab, and this is, by the way, the...
Maria Grazia Di Benedetto
Jul 30, 20195 min read
The secret bond between mother and child: The power of breast milk nutrients
Having a baby is considered a unique and incomparable experience in the life of any woman, and breastfeeding is often described as one of...
Ellen Lambert
Jul 16, 20199 min read
The causes of obesity are not as simple as you might think
Just last month, I was chatting to a friend, who happens to be a doctor, about my research. She asked me: “So, really? You would classify...
Jessica Trinetti
Jul 9, 20194 min read
CAN A MOTHER’S HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD STRESS AFFECT THEIR OWN CHILDREN?
In recent years, more and more attention has been placed on the concept that the psychological development of a child is the result of a...
Lisa Hantsoo
Jul 2, 20195 min read
Does stress early in life leave an imprint in our guts? The gut microbiome and mental health.
We all experience stress. Whether garden-variety stressors (the task that was due last week, the pile of laundry that keeps growing, the...
Lavinia Rebecchini
Jun 25, 20194 min read
Using Expressive Writing to cope with childbirth
The period following childbirth represents a very delicate phase of settling and redefinition of personal and relational identity for new...
Rachel Kelly
Jun 4, 20193 min read
BEING HAPPY NOT PERFECT
I have spent much of the morning trying to find the right sentence with which to start an article. I am playing with the phrase ‘it is a...
Rachel Kelly
May 21, 20194 min read
ESCAPING YOUR COMFORT ZONE
A coldish evening and I am back from a class on how to give a presentation, cradling a mug of celebratory hot chocolate. Even the thought...
Rachel Kelly
May 14, 20194 min read
RELAXING PHYSICALLY
A tense body means a tense mind. Equally, if you are physically relaxed, it is impossible to be anything other than mentally relaxed....
Melisa Kose
Apr 24, 20195 min read
Mental Health Through the Lens of Cinema, Episode 3: The ‘Mad Scientist’ Trope
Murderous, unstable, and practising medicine; how do the ways that films present psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience affect both...
Courtney Worrell
Apr 9, 20195 min read
BREAKING NEWS: Mental Health Patients Are NOT Criminals
Even if you aren’t picking up a physical paper and flicking through its pages, chances are that on occasion you have been scrolling down...
Ellen Lambert
Mar 27, 20196 min read
Does Food Addiction exist?
The latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), a handbook used by healthcare professionals to diagnose mental...
Giulia Lombardo
Mar 20, 20193 min read
SEX DIFFERENCES IN MENTAL HEALTH: A REFLECTION
Only a little more than a month ago, on the morning of the 15th of February, I had my usual Italian breakfast in an unusual Airbnb in...
Melisa Kose
Mar 13, 20195 min read
Mental Health Through the Lens of Cinema, Episode 2: Merging Genres for a Stronger Story
How is it that Daniel Radcliffe playing an undead amnesiac with superhuman abilities for 97 minutes in Swiss Army Man (2016) is somehow a...
Melisa Kose
Mar 1, 20194 min read
Mental Health Through the Lens of Cinema, Episode 1: The Divide Between Genres
Archaic portrayals of mental illness still bleed into the mainstream media of today. As exemplified by the uninspired notion of “crazy...
Kristi Priestley
Mar 1, 20194 min read
Why Mental Health Starts Before We Are Born
Why Mental Health Starts Before We Are Born: The Importance of Mental Wellbeing in Pregnancy Mental health is a growing topic in the...
Carmine Pariante
Feb 23, 20183 min read
Food for thought — recipes for a happy year
You want to be happier in 2019, and new year’s resolutions will not help, so why don’t you try some ‘food for thought’ recipes? I have...
Ashvin Kuri
Aug 24, 20164 min read
An Adolescent Boy’s View of Why Adolescent Boys Should Learn How to Express Their Emotions
Everybody is talking about adolescent boys and the fact that they do not express their emotions. In a recent interview, Prince Harry says...
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