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Agnosia: Looking to Your Surroundings from a Different Perspective As a Neuroscience postgraduate student at King’s College London, I...

How can architecture support our mental health? - Part One Good architecture, like psychology and psychiatry, runs the gamut from hard...

Molecular Investigation of Bear Bile: A gift from Nature and Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World Disclaimer: In presenting the...

Using MRI to Investigate the Brain Response to Inflammatory Stimuli In my previous blog, The Inflamed Brain: How inflammation can affect...

Under Attack: Associations between childhood trauma and inflammation in adulthood Trigger warning: This blog discusses topics of...

All my life, I have been told I was just a picky eater. Even as a toddler, I struggled to eat and drink without gagging. Doctors told my...

Do eating disorders impact the brain? Eating disorders affect the lives of so many… Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating...

Clozapine: Knowing its flaws to optimize its potential When people find out what my job is, it is frequent that I hear jokes about me...

LGBTQI+ mental health during the pandemic My name is Paul Gorczynski. I am a psychologist who conducts research relating to various...

When the name does matter The importance of definitions in treatment-resistant depression and a new published guideline for clinical...

International Day of Women & Girls in Science: My Journey and the Women Who Inspired It Author’s Note: This article is part of a...

“Stop being so difficult” — Why we need to rethink puberty Many mental health issues, like depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia...

How our genes can help us to treat depression and an exciting new development Most of us know what depression is, but how many of us know...

Getting into the Rhythm of Things: What can our brain signals tell us about mental ill health? Every time you have to quickly adapt your...

Falling out of depression — does psychological therapy reverse the biological changes in depression? A few months ago, I wrote a blog on...

Understanding ethnic inequalities in mental health and the need for an intersectional approach Reflections through the lens of the...

Next generation of rapid-acting antidepressants: Can ketamine help prevent suicide? As a scientist with an interest in mental health and...

Compliments — more than what meets the eye Why do you give compliments? Do you feel genuine when giving compliments? How do you feel...

Beyond Daddy Blues I’m a neuroscientist and therapist. Generally, my work focuses on maternal mental health for a number of reasons — but...

Is Zoom Burning All of Us Out? Are women more at-risk from mental health difficulties linked to Zoom than men? My name is Dr Mia...

The Vital Role of Mitochondria in Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia I’m a PhD student at King’s College London, and when I’m not...

I am a final year PhD student in Professor Stephen ‘Mac’ McMahon’s laboratory at the Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King’s...

Do we eat to live or live to eat? For most of us, the answer may be both. We eat food every day to get sufficient energy that maintains...

The Power of Gut Bacteria to Influence Mental Health I am a final year PhD student at the Centre for Affective Disorders at King’s...