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The month of June was a momentous milestone in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. Regardless of your stance on the conditional...

Psychedelic drugs were not mentioned to me when training as a psychiatrist, as far as I remember. Perhaps they were, in passing, but...

I first came across the study of depression as a biomedical science student. We discussed mental illness as a consequence or a side...

When thinking about maternal mental health and how difficulties with it may influence a developing baby, it is only natural to imagine...

Let’s talk about your brain on motherhood for a minute or two. I’m a neuroscientist who studies the maternal brain. When I mention the...

A huge issue facing us following the outbreak of COVID-19 is the number of people suffering from ongoing symptoms or long-COVID. Over...

The role of our genes and the role of the environment Numerous studies so far have shown there is a connection between depression and...

One in seven adolescents worldwide experienced mental health difficulties in 2019, with depression being one of the leading causes of...

Understanding Long Covid: The need to challenge stigma at its root I’m a philosopher. For the last few years, I have been working on...

The Hype on “Beyond the Hype”: an Interview with Fiona Fox, the Head of the Science Media Centre We are celebrating the 20 year...

Postpartum (or puerperal) psychosis is a rare — occurring in just 1–2 women per 1000 deliveries in the general population — but extremely...

The COVID-19 outbreak hit us in March 2020, in the second year of my undergraduate Psychology degree. I experienced the national lockdown...

Can early-life stress be the cause of the coexistent development of psychological, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders? The EarlyCause...

Let’s talk about the MINDEP study, my PhD journey and life after it. As a clinical scientist, it’s sometimes difficult to understand...

In the UK, COVID-19 restrictions have begun to ease from March 8th, 2021 after a punishing 3rd lockdown during the British winter. The...

If you have no idea what “psychoneuroendocrinology” means, no worries. It is not all that complicated and really just three words merged...

I am a junior doctor keen to explore the meaningful connection between my two personal passions, the arts and health. Can the arts be...

My first encounter with mental illness was in books. I have been a researcher and a teacher in philosophy for about ten years and I...

Sleeping constitutes around one-third of our lifetime. To put this statistic into perspective, if you live until 70 years old, around 27...

I graduated from my BSc in Psychology in 2020. At the time I was so focused on my research project which focused on trauma and...

Addressing doctors’ suicide and mental health in the world of medicine. The path of becoming and being a doctor is challenging. We may...

This week (1st-7th Feb, 2021) is Children’s Mental Health Week. This year, the event has special significance because it falls in the...

“Hello? Can you hear me?” was not something I thought I would be saying in the middle of my counselling session. Yet here I was, in my...

The online arts movement helping brain injury survivors to tell their stories through music During the pandemic, we have adapted to new...