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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 reason why InSPIre the Mind has the capital SPI) I often gets asked to discuss this topic at public festivals, dissemination events, or online interviews — being these the Wellcome Trust Hub at the Latitude Festival in 2015 , the Wellcome Collection Packed Lunch in 2016, the Also Festival in 2017, the Museum of the Mind in 2019 , or an interv

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...

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...

The latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), a handbook used by healthcare professionals to diagnose mental...

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...

How is it that Daniel Radcliffe playing an undead amnesiac with superhuman abilities for 97 minutes in Swiss Army Man (2016) is somehow a...

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: The Importance of Mental Wellbeing in Pregnancy Mental health is a growing topic in the...

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...

Everybody is talking about adolescent boys and the fact that they do not express their emotions. In a recent interview, Prince Harry says...