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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...

What is ‘Play Therapy’, and could it be integrated into preschools? My name is Riddhi, and I am currently doing the MSc in Developmental...

Beyond the Veil of a Male Phenomenon: Sex hormones & the immune system in suicide vulnerability Trigger warning: The following blog...

Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, is widely credited with highlighting the importance of self-blame-related feelings in depression....

Agnosia: Looking to Your Surroundings from a Different Perspective As a Neuroscience postgraduate student at King’s College London, I...

How can architecture support our mental health? - Part One Good architecture, like psychology and psychiatry, runs the gamut from hard...

Molecular Investigation of Bear Bile: A gift from Nature and Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World Disclaimer: In presenting the...

Using MRI to Investigate the Brain Response to Inflammatory Stimuli In my previous blog, The Inflamed Brain: How inflammation can affect...

Under Attack: Associations between childhood trauma and inflammation in adulthood Trigger warning: This blog discusses topics of...

All my life, I have been told I was just a picky eater. Even as a toddler, I struggled to eat and drink without gagging. Doctors told my...

Do eating disorders impact the brain? Eating disorders affect the lives of so many… Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating...

Clozapine: Knowing its flaws to optimize its potential When people find out what my job is, it is frequent that I hear jokes about me...