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I am a final year PhD student in Professor Stephen ‘Mac’ McMahon’s laboratory at the Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King’s...

Do we eat to live or live to eat? For most of us, the answer may be both. We eat food every day to get sufficient energy that maintains...

The Power of Gut Bacteria to Influence Mental Health I am a final year PhD student at the Centre for Affective Disorders at King’s...

I am a London-based medical student, currently taking a master’s degree in Neuroscience at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and...

Visiting the app store for a mental health app can be mind-boggling today. With more than 10,000 apps for mindfulness, stress relief,...

Gene-Environment Interplay in Depression and Body Inflammation: How do our genes interact with our childhood experiences? I am a...

I am a history enthusiast who studied European history at Wilfrid Laurier University and now I write about it for various websites and...

Barriers to NHS Healthcare Faced by Transgender and Non-Binary Patients: The example of cervical screening I am an academic foundation...

One More Reason for a Healthy Lifestyle: Exercise might increase vaccines' effectiveness The COVID-19 vaccine holds great promise for...

Could the COVID-19 Pandemic Have Led to Increased Rates of Psychosis? Earlier this week, the Guardian reported that the number of people...

Metabolites derived from omega-3 fatty acids could help reduce depression: dream or reality? I am a senior postdoctoral neuroscientist at...

The Biology of Depression, and Being on the Path to Discovery I am a scientist and I work with a team of researchers who spend their...

The Immune Factor: A potential contributor to autism spectrum conditions? After almost two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, I bet we’ve...

I am a child and adolescent psychiatrist and neuroscientist working with the Stress, Psychiatry, and Immunology Laboratory (the team that...

I am a researcher at the Stress, Psychiatry and Immunology (SPI) Lab at Kings College London, a Nutritionist and part of the team that...

My name is Aida and I’m a second-year student at King’s College London, currently studying Global Health and Social Medicine BSc. I’d...

I’ve cried on ashen floors of working men’s clubs. 96, 98, 2000, 2002, 2004. Oh my god, will it end? Oh my god! Oh my god!...

I’m often asked if the effects of motherhood on the brain will last forever. Short answer — yes! And this looks like a good thing. I’m a...

What Can We Learn from Blood & the Brain? Since their introduction to medicine in the 1950s, antipsychotics have been the first line of...

Why does Burnout Matter at this Stage of the Pandemic? If you are reading this blog and you are not feeling tired then you may be one of...

When I think about the word optimism, the first word that often comes to my mind is ‘positivity’. I conjure up an idea of someone who...

Animals to the Rescue — Assisted Therapy & Unconditional Love Over the years, I relocated several times for education and work in India....

The interplay between sex hormones and immune system: an undiscovered path in the affective disorder maze? For generations (until the...

An Insider’s View on Mental Health in the Legal Profession Law is a high-stress profession; there’s almost no doubt about it. Having been...