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Understanding Long Covid: The need to challenge stigma at its root I’m a philosopher. For the last few years, I have been working on...

The Hype on “Beyond the Hype”: an Interview with Fiona Fox, the Head of the Science Media Centre We are celebrating the 20 year...

Postpartum (or puerperal) psychosis is a rare — occurring in just 1–2 women per 1000 deliveries in the general population — but extremely...

The COVID-19 outbreak hit us in March 2020, in the second year of my undergraduate Psychology degree. I experienced the national lockdown...

Can early-life stress be the cause of the coexistent development of psychological, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders? The EarlyCause...

Let’s talk about the MINDEP study, my PhD journey and life after it. As a clinical scientist, it’s sometimes difficult to understand...

In the UK, COVID-19 restrictions have begun to ease from March 8th, 2021 after a punishing 3rd lockdown during the British winter. The...

If you have no idea what “psychoneuroendocrinology” means, no worries. It is not all that complicated and really just three words merged...

I am a junior doctor keen to explore the meaningful connection between my two personal passions, the arts and health. Can the arts be...

My first encounter with mental illness was in books. I have been a researcher and a teacher in philosophy for about ten years and I...

Sleeping constitutes around one-third of our lifetime. To put this statistic into perspective, if you live until 70 years old, around 27...

I graduated from my BSc in Psychology in 2020. At the time I was so focused on my research project which focused on trauma and...

Addressing doctors’ suicide and mental health in the world of medicine. The path of becoming and being a doctor is challenging. We may...

This week (1st-7th Feb, 2021) is Children’s Mental Health Week. This year, the event has special significance because it falls in the...

“Hello? Can you hear me?” was not something I thought I would be saying in the middle of my counselling session. Yet here I was, in my...

The online arts movement helping brain injury survivors to tell their stories through music During the pandemic, we have adapted to new...

Addressing doctors’ suicide and mental health in the world of medicine. Suicide is not a subject that is talked about as openly or easily...

Attention-deficit and hyperactive disorder (ADHD) is a common mental disorder typically detected in childhood and is characterised by a...

Depression is a serious condition that interferes with your ability to work, sleep, to interact with friends and family. In fact, it...

Psychedelics, plant medicine and ceremonies in the Amazon jungle — could this be the future of psychiatry? Ayahuasca, a brew of plants...

When I think of cannabis use, I can’t help but think about the stigma and controversy that has been around it for the past few decades,...

*A Neurodivergent lens Due to Covid-19 there maybe even more pressure to enjoy the festive season this year and the social expectations...

If you could go back in time, what do you wish you had learnt to increase your confidence in navigating your mental health? Being in my...

The festive period is a time of high spirits and gift-giving, or at least as much of that as is possible in the midst of a global...