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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...

How can psychology help us to treat long covid? (Part two of two) You might have caught part one of this blog piece two days ago, where I...

How can psychology help us to treat long covid? (Part one of two) At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I co-published a blog about...

COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the UK — can we blame vaccine hesitancy? COVID vaccination programmes are underway all over the world. The UK...

The month of June was a momentous milestone in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. Regardless of your stance on the conditional...

Psychedelic drugs were not mentioned to me when training as a psychiatrist, as far as I remember. Perhaps they were, in passing, but...

I first came across the study of depression as a biomedical science student. We discussed mental illness as a consequence or a side...

When thinking about maternal mental health and how difficulties with it may influence a developing baby, it is only natural to imagine...

Let’s talk about your brain on motherhood for a minute or two. I’m a neuroscientist who studies the maternal brain. When I mention the...

A huge issue facing us following the outbreak of COVID-19 is the number of people suffering from ongoing symptoms or long-COVID. Over...

The role of our genes and the role of the environment Numerous studies so far have shown there is a connection between depression and...

One in seven adolescents worldwide experienced mental health difficulties in 2019, with depression being one of the leading causes of...