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Stan Popovich
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Lessons Learnt From My Mental Health Struggles
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Walking by Windows
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Maddy Kirkpatrick
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Photo by Westend61 on Adobe Stock Throughout the week, our thoughts often gravitate towards the approaching weekend, or we eagerly...
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Professor Matthew Hotopf on ‘Where is psychiatry going?’
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Sharon Ngo
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As martial artists we support the UN Campaign to Eradicate Violence Against Women
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Did people from ancient cultures also suffer from PTSD?
There’s a very common misconception held by many who do not suffer from mental health issues that they are a very recent, new type of...
Natali Simmonds
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Self-promotion for creatives: Getting seen is the key to success
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Spotify Wrapped and How We Manipulate Our Social Image
The end of November once again brings with it the internet’s favourite musical-statistics event, Spotify Wrapped.
Courtney Worrell
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Like the White Rabbit, ‘We’re Late!’ or so says social media
I am in my twenties, and I often find myself having the same conservations with people of a similar age – we all question whether we are...
Isabella Molnar
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From Categories to Continua?
We often consider mental health as a yes-or-no situation. You are either basking in the full light of well-being or you are trapped in...
Alice Toomer McAlpine
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The Comfort of Crowds
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Do you feel cranky after a sleepless night? This could be why
As a person with insomnia, I often have trouble falling asleep and have always wondered why I feel cranky after a night of only a few...
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Why it is so difficult to understand my Mom’s mental health struggles?
I moved to the UK around 9 years ago for education, and recently started my PhD in neuroscience and immunology, looking at how the brain...
Sorcha Alford
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Dads: An Untapped Resource in The Perinatal Period
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Alessandra Biaggi
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Working together to protect the well-being of preterm babies and their families
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Carola Chiarpenello
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Finding my Dharma, aka life purpose.
Since a young age, I have always been an investigator. My mother jokingly says, “Carola, you ask as many questions in a day as your...
Alessandra Borsini
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Mind and Body, constantly interacting: What do they say to each other?
Our new MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface offered by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at...
Laura Kemp
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Complexity and distress: the mental load of living with Type 1 Diabetes
Around 340,000 people in the UK live with Type 1 Diabetes. It is relatively rare in comparison to Type 2, and it is incurable. It is also...
Elizabeth Taylor
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Learning to Swim as An Adult
When I decided to learn to swim in my mid-forties, I googled for inspiration but didn’t find many success stories. Scrolling back through...
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