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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...

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

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...

Who is at risk of developing depression and anxiety in pregnancy?

Alessandra Biaggi

Apr 10, 20194 min read

The Perinatal Journey

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...

BREAKING NEWS: Mental Health Patients Are NOT Criminals

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...

Beware of labelling depressed people: “treatment resistant” does not mean “untreatable”

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...

SEX DIFFERENCES IN MENTAL HEALTH: A REFLECTION

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Why Mental Health Starts Before We Are Born

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...

Food for thought — recipes for a happy year

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...

An Adolescent Boy’s View of Why Adolescent Boys Should Learn How to Express Their Emotions

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...

Facts You Should Know About Psychiatry and Why It Is Helping the Person Next to You

Jun 29, 20164 min read

Facts You Should Know About Psychiatry and Why It Is Helping the Person Next to You

You may have never met one of us, but you will know someone who has been helped by one of us. The elderly mother of your best friend, who...

There Are More Connections in the Human Brain Than There Are Stars in Our Milky Way Galaxy…

May 17, 20164 min read

There Are More Connections in the Human Brain Than There Are Stars in Our Milky Way Galaxy…

Neurones forming synaptic connection in the brain superimposed to the Milky Way: is our understanding of the mind and the brain equally...

Seven Things Lynn Did Not Know About Pregnancy