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An interview with Kate Marsh, a Midwifery Manager at Tommy’s on Word Prematurity Day Picture from the The European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI) Today, the 17th of November, is World Prematurity Day. The day was initiated in 2008 by the European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI), to raise awareness of preterm birth and the associated challenges. Then, organisations in Africa, the USA and Australia joined as well and made Prematurity Day a

Our new MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface offered by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at King’s College London aims to answer this question. Photo from Next Wave Therapy I am Alessandra Borsini, a senior research scientist based at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), who has been investigating the intersection between the Mind and the Body in the context of mental health disorders for more than 15

Around 340,000 people in the UK live with Type 1 Diabetes. It is relatively rare in comparison to Type 2, and it is incurable. It is also...

Imposter syndrome, also known as imposter phenomenon, is a common behavioural psychological occurrence estimated to affect one-third of...

When I was in primary school, I was one of those annoying kids who enjoyed taking tests. To be clear, I was not superhuman: I had the...

Yoga is much more than just impressive poses. It’s a complete philosophy, as highlighted by the insightful article written by Dr....

I find that the best kind of movies stay with me for a long while afterwards, often in the form of lingering images, thoughts, or...

Joe Paton, head of the Learning Lab at the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, has been researching the neurological principles by which the brain gains access to timekeeping, a fundamental dimension of our experience on Earth. He and his team have narrowed down a population of neurons in the striatum, a deep brain region, that possess a rich capacity to generate time-varying patterns of activity. “You can see this network of neurons in a dish, if you provide some input, the

Celebrating the launch of new book ‘Psychiatrists on Psychiatry' "If I have seen further up, it is by standing on the shoulders of...

Walking for me, is akin to therapy. You have recently read about the benefits of nature and of nature soundscape. As a counselling...

Are you someone who worries about things that haven’t happened yet? Things that might not happen? But, what if it does happen? And, if it...

I want to develop a prenatal Yoga module for women at risk of postnatal depression with the expertise of Yoga academics...

A few years ago, a group of scientists from different parts of the world met and discovered that they shared the same aspiration- they...

An interview with Zachariah Reagh, a brain scientist at Washington University. Do you remember what you did on this day six months ago? Do you remember who you were with? Or where you were? Zachariah Reagh, Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has a new paper out in Nature Communications about how the brain remembers everyday-events by making mental sketches of people and contexts and copy-pasting them around different s

This blog was written together with my dear friend and colleague Katie Hazelgrove, who is a postdoctoral researcher in the Section of Perinatal Psychiatry at King's College London. Katie has a particular interest in understanding early infant behaviour. Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Building a relationship with the baby: Understanding their cues We have already discussed how a parent-infant relationship where the baby feels understood and secure is important for their de

Angst, love, heartbreak, and serious growing pains: whether they were over yesterday or decades ago, chances are you remember your...

Thinking errors, also known as cognitive distortions, are thoughts and beliefs that are biased, irrational, and unhelpful.

I don’t think of home the way most people do. Born in Brazil to American members of a new religious movement/cult, I moved frequently.

Content warning: This article contains discussions on addtiction and substance abuse. I have been writing history-based articles for...

Out of all of the organs, the human brain is the most complicated and one of the least understood. It’s responsible for all of our...

This new meta-analysis gets to the bottom of the question. A new, exhaustive study published in the peer-reviewed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals some striking new relationships between personality and cognitive abilities. I’m a science journalist, and my work — which has appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, BBC, and National Geographic — is about telling stories of how the mind works. I met with the researchers behind the paper, Kevin Sta

A deep dive into Professor Susan Duty's research

Diversity vs. Norm The university I work for — a large, renowned, London-based, and part of the prestigious Russell Group — prides itself...

Monsoon was in its full glory, unleashing the inherent power and magnificence of nature. Stars wore the blanket of blue-grey clouds and...