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

As a student of psychology, and an aspiring mental health practitioner, one of my key areas of interest involves understanding new forms...

The Covid-19 pandemic has made life unpredictable, and accordingly, mental health concerns have grown exponentially. In fact, 13% of the...

Overlooked and Downplayed: The Difficulty in Getting an Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD) Diagnosis It took me years to...

Last year, I wrote a blog on how early life stress can affect how our bodies work and how it can lead to feeling depressed. In...

“Table for two?” It feels good being seated once again at my favourite local restaurant and I’ve never had a better excuse to spend my...

Recent estimates forecast that 1 billion people worldwide will be using wearable devices to track their levels of sleep and activity by...

A vision for changing the wellbeing of future generations by tackling the longstanding shortcomings in maternal healthcare The...

I am a freelance science journalist and I have previously written for The Guardian, BBC, National Geographic, Gizmodo, Wired, and more. I...

When it comes to diagnosing physical illnesses, there are a myriad of different biological tests that can be done to correctly diagnose...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted fundamental truths about infectious disease in humans. First, the makeup of our societies helps...

This new study says there’s a difficult but effective way. In moments of heightened anxiety and stress, my intrusive thoughts take over....

After returning to work from my third maternity leave, one thought still plagues my mind. Is my child going to be okay? I am an incoming...

I can’t get the fog to lift: Deterioration progresses differently in people with different levels of memory problems Dementia research,...

The relational dimension of care has been core to our profession since its inception. Highlighted by Jaspers over a hundred years ago was...

In the last 5 years, hospital admissions for eating disorders have risen by 84%, with over 9,000 admissions for anorexia nervosa between...

A recent article in The Guardian highlighted the urgent need for research into sex-related differences in asthma mortality, claiming that...

Trigger warning: This article discusses childhood traumatic experiences and may not be suitable for some readers. It is suggested that...

I, like so many other students in the field of Neuroscience, spent the vast majority of my graduate training studying neurons — the...

When I was a clinical psychology trainee at Temple University in the United States, one of the most common complaints I heard from people...

Is Our Immune System Conscious? I’m glad this title got your attention — it caught mine, too, when I realised it was possible! Though I...

Antipsychotic Medications: Women are different from Men I am a psychiatrist working at the University Medical Center in Groningen,...

The Bow that Bends but Doesn’t Break: Might Flexibility Reduce Depression Risk? The COVID-19 pandemic forced us to get creative about how...

Yoga is not “woo-woo” anymore: yoga can reduce inflammation, according to research The online space allows for easy access to health...