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Ditch the diets this January, says Rachel Kelly

Jan 29, 20203 min read

Ditch the diets this January, says Rachel Kelly

A New year, and a time when publishers traditionally promote January diet books urging self-restraint after the season of merrymaking....

Health and Happiness the Salon London Way

Helen Bagnall

Jan 15, 20206 min read

Lifestyle & Relationships

Health and Happiness the Salon London Way

In 2008, Juliet Russell, Diccon Towns and I set up Salon London to get Londoners together with academics, experts, authors and their...

Giulia Lombardo

Jan 8, 20205 min read

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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

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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...

More Fish, Better Attention? It Really Depends.

Jane Chang

Nov 6, 20193 min read

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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...

Is Kung Fu good for your health? Yes — and also for your body and mind

Carmine Pariante

Oct 8, 20195 min read

Lifestyle & Relationships

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,...

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures” — A photographer’s creative journey into expressing…

Francesco Catania

Oct 1, 20194 min read

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“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...

People always want to know about stress and how it affects our lives

Inspire the Mind

Sep 3, 20194 min read

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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...

The secret bond between mother and child: The power of breast milk nutrients

Maria Grazia Di Benedetto

Jul 30, 20195 min read

Lifestyle & Relationships

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...

The causes of obesity are not as simple as you might think

Ellen Lambert

Jul 16, 20199 min read

Lifestyle & Relationships

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...

CAN A MOTHER’S HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD STRESS AFFECT THEIR OWN CHILDREN?

Jessica Trinetti

Jul 9, 20194 min read

Lifestyle & Relationships

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...

Does stress early in life leave an imprint in our guts? The gut microbiome and mental health.

Lisa Hantsoo

Jul 2, 20195 min read

Lifestyle & Relationships

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...

Using Expressive Writing to cope with childbirth

Lavinia Rebecchini

Jun 25, 20194 min read

Lifestyle & Relationships

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

Lifestyle & Relationships

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

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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

Lifestyle & Relationships

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....

Mental Health Through the Lens of Cinema, Episode 3: The ‘Mad Scientist’ Trope

Melisa Kose

Apr 24, 20195 min read

Lifestyle & Relationships

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...

BREAKING NEWS: Mental Health Patients Are NOT Criminals

Courtney Worrell

Apr 9, 20195 min read

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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

Lifestyle & Relationships

Does Food Addiction exist?

The latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), a handbook used by healthcare professionals to diagnose mental...

SEX DIFFERENCES IN MENTAL HEALTH: A REFLECTION

Giulia Lombardo

Mar 20, 20193 min read

Lifestyle & Relationships

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...

Mental Health Through the Lens of Cinema, Episode 2: Merging Genres for a Stronger Story

Melisa Kose

Mar 13, 20195 min read

Lifestyle & Relationships

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...

Mental Health Through the Lens of Cinema, Episode 1: The Divide Between Genres

Melisa Kose

Mar 1, 20194 min read

Lifestyle & Relationships

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...

Why Mental Health Starts Before We Are Born

Kristi Priestley

Mar 1, 20194 min read

Lifestyle & Relationships

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...

Food for thought — recipes for a happy year

Carmine Pariante

Feb 23, 20183 min read

Lifestyle & Relationships

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...

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