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Ahmed Hankir
Jun 4, 201910 min read
‘The Wounded Healer’ — Harnessing the Power of the Performing Arts to Reduce Mental Health Related…
‘The Wounded Healer’ — Harnessing the Power of the Performing Arts to Reduce Mental Health Related Stigma in Healthcare Professionals and...
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...
Courtney Worrell
May 28, 201911 min read
"You might not be able to help physically or surgically, but you can help if you are willing to give love"
Emma Watson in Conversation with Dr Denis Mukwege, presented by The New York Times and how to: Academy Trigger warning — This blog...
Kristi Priestley
May 28, 20194 min read
Maternal Journal: A Radical Expression of Matrescence
In her TED talk Dr. Sacks explains that, just like adolescence, ‘matrescence’ is a time of feeling “hormonal and moody…skin breaking...
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...
Etta Nettis
May 21, 20195 min read
“I’m in pain, permanently”.
Adolescent depression is on stage in London: at the KILN Theatre, in ‘The Son’ by Florian Zeller, and at the Royal Society of Medicine,...
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....
Inspire the Mind
May 14, 20195 min read
My weakened mental health as a mother with a sick baby
I had never paid much attention to depression, anxiety, eating disorders or sleep deprivation, that is, until I had my second baby. She...
Mao Fong Lim
May 7, 20194 min read
Emotions, Projected.
Film has always been a powerful and stirring medium for storytelling, especially around the theme of mental health. Here, we reflect on...
Jane Chang
Apr 30, 20195 min read
Diet and Exercise for Melancholy: Throwback to The 18th Century
Many may have viewed nutritional psychiatry as a new interest in the field of medicine, but it was actually an age-old remedy along with...
Carmine Pariante
Apr 30, 20195 min read
Every Pregnancy is Everyone’s Business
Maternal Mental Health Matters Awareness Week 2019 has just started, and we are going to celebrate it today with the launch of the...
Luca Sforzini
Apr 24, 20195 min read
It may NOT be just the weather
A biological overview of the seasonal changes across mood disorders “The changes of the seasons are especially liable to beget...
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...
Alessandra Biaggi
Apr 10, 20194 min read
Who is at risk of developing depression and anxiety in pregnancy?
Identifying women at risk could protect them and their infants. Perhaps not everyone knows that depression during pregnancy is as common...
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...
Etta Nettis
Apr 2, 20196 min read
Beware of labelling depressed people: “treatment resistant” does not mean “untreatable”
What can be done for people who do not respond to antidepressants: current guidelines and new perspectives I. Prologue: how I ended up...
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...
Luca Sforzini
Mar 17, 20193 min read
What’s worse than having cancer?
An overview of the biological link between cancer and depression (and how to win the chess match against them both). There is a silent...
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...
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