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My interest in mental health grew considerably when I started medical school. I remember being spellbound by a lecture in the first term of my first year on the interface between public health and child mental health, and wondering whether this might be something I’d like to do as a career. Quickly realising that psychiatry comprised such a small part of our curriculum, I began dedicating my evenings to attending extracurricular talks run by my medical school’s Psychiatry Soc

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...

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 whether your ideas and research are good enough to have a future. You might present your project to your peers, or a much-feared funding panel, and, if unlucky, hear back three heart-sinking words: “And so what?” I have learned that a good question to ask yourself — to better understand whether you are going in the right direction — is: how is m

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