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In these recent months of lockdown, I have felt drawn towards — or, better, hypnotized — by the nature around me. I have surrounded...

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a devastating impact on health, society and the global economy. Worldwide infections are now over...

Cooking without a doubt nourishes your psychological well-being; it soothes the soul and the mind” — Chef Zipora Einav For some people...

One thing that all people (and even some animals) have in common is habits. Bad ones, good ones — our lives are all about changing them,...

1. Make your bed first thing Every morning, make your bed to your own satisfaction, the duvet nice and straight and the pillows plumped....

Fish, and particularly fish oil, contains molecules called omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. Walnuts, soybeans, and flaxseeds are...

Is this #pandemic changing our approach to pollution? And to life? Let me start with an Editor’s Note. We don’t usually start a blog with...

A New year, and a time when publishers traditionally promote January diet books urging self-restraint after the season of merrymaking....

In 2008, Juliet Russell, Diccon Towns and I set up Salon London to get Londoners together with academics, experts, authors and their...

“A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind… All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never...

Almost twenty years have passed since the birth of the digital world (Berners Lee 1999). The creation and subsequent rise of the Internet...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is quite common. It affects about one in 20 children and is three or four times more...

It’s the 20th anniversary of The Matrix, one of the best Kung Fu movies ever. The Matrix. And, in a totally unrelated coincidence,...

Walking on an empty street of London: the illuminated windows, the colours and the shadows are always different. Behind every window...

Not surprisingly (perhaps because we are the Stress, Psychiatry and Immunology Laboratory — the SPI Lab, and this is, by the way, the...

Having a baby is considered a unique and incomparable experience in the life of any woman, and breastfeeding is often described as one of...

Just last month, I was chatting to a friend, who happens to be a doctor, about my research. She asked me: “So, really? You would classify...

In recent years, more and more attention has been placed on the concept that the psychological development of a child is the result of a...

We all experience stress. Whether garden-variety stressors (the task that was due last week, the pile of laundry that keeps growing, the...

The period following childbirth represents a very delicate phase of settling and redefinition of personal and relational identity for new...

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...

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...

A tense body means a tense mind. Equally, if you are physically relaxed, it is impossible to be anything other than mentally relaxed....

Murderous, unstable, and practising medicine; how do the ways that films present psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience affect both...