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Can poetry help our mental health? Image source: Freepik In my last piece, I spoke about my personal experiences with poetry, and the life-changing impact it has had on me, so much so that I’ve written a new book on the links between verse and our emotional wellbeing. However, now I am here to share the evidence that attests to poetry’s power to heal our minds. Author's own image I set about to find what research existed, and came across a number of studies which I divided in

Prevention through Connection Given the combination of an already stretched mental health care system, the overwhelming need for mental...

“Since man’s construction is from both his soul and his body, therefore, human existence cannot be healthy without the ishtibak...

Mathematics, from the perspectives I have encountered for my entire life, is the subject where, when studied, people feel some of the...

Last week, I wrote about Al-Razi, father of pediatrics. In this article, I will be discussing one of my favourite historical figures,...

I’m going to let you into an open secret — social status determines the likelihood of having a mental illness, accessing mental...

Feeling sad, apathetic, deflated, or irritable is not uncommon after a holiday period, especially Christmas. And of course, there are...

As scientists, we stand on the shoulders of giants, so I think it’s the least we can do to acknowledge them. Many of those who impacted...

Between 2020 to 2021, a total of 79.4 million antidepressant drug items were prescribed to 7.87 million identified patients.

When I was growing up, “Merry Christmas” (or “Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia” in Polish, where I am from), was the traditional way of...

What do you think of when you think about food? How does it taste, and what does it smell like? Does it look appealing, and will it...

My name is Cole Sommeling, and I am a placement student working at King’s College and currently getting my BSc in psychology. I’ve been...

What are the costs? We are a group of researchers from different parts of the world. We focus on mental health in the perinatal period,...

The benefits of platform trials This is the second article of a brand-new series inspired by EU-PEARL (EUropean-Patient-cEntric clinicAl...

And why platform trials are the only way to move it forward This is the first article of a brand-new series inspired by EU-PEARL...

As I sat on the grass soaking all the dewy fresh green around me in the early morning, I thought to myself, is green the colour of...

This is the fifth week of our Maternal Mental Health series, which is dedicated to postnatal post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We are publishing two blogs: one by Becky Fisher, sharing her personal experience with postnatal PTSD, and another one by Professor Colin Martin focusing on describing the clinical and scientific perspective of postnatal PTSD. Photo by Devon Divine on Unsplash Becky’s account of her experience of postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder (PP-PTS

Learning what the Mother and Baby Unit is like and how do occupational therapists work with mothers and their babies Welcome to the fourth week of our Maternal Mental Health series. This week I wanted to bring you the perspective of professionals in the community that help mothers that are struggling with their mental health. We often think of GPs, psychologists or psychiatrists, but other professionals can complement their work and, as a team, bring mothers back to health an

Everyone experiences loss at some point. Sooner or later, we all learn what bereavement, an unpleasant but unavoidable part of living,...

Co-written by Katie Hazelgrove. This is the third week of our Maternal Mental Health series, and it is dedicated to Postpartum Psychosis — a rare but extremely severe postnatal mental illness, which must be treated as a medical and psychiatric emergency to protect the safety of the mother and baby. This week we are publishing two blogs: one by Eve Canavan on her personal experience, and another by researchers Alessandra Biaggi and Katie Hazelgrove from King’s College London,

Intellectual ability, such as thinking, reasoning, and remembering, is tricky to measure. This may be the reason why no major advancement...

I am a Clinical Psychologist and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry of Amsterdam UMC in...

This is the second week of our Maternal Mental Health series, which is dedicated to perinatal Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In honour of OCD Awareness Week, we are publishing two blogs, one from Maria Bavetta, co-founder of the charity Maternal OCD , about her personal experience of dealing with and overcoming perinatal OCD, and another by King’s College London researcher Dr Fiona Challacombe that focuses on what we know about this condition and the challenges that nee

This is the first blog of our Maternal Mental Health series. For the next six weeks, dear reader, you will read about the often misrepresented, largely misunderstood world of maternal mental illness. We will publish stories from lived experience perspectives and give you the researcher or clinician's perspective on the topics of perinatal OCD, postpartum psychosis, clinical and community mental health support, and childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder, and we will