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Trigger warning: This article contains mentions of sexual assault and violence which some readers may find distressing. On Tuesday 9 th ...

This piece is part of our series for Sexual Health Awareness Week. I’m sure nobody looks forward to their gynecology appointment, but...

As the Programme Lead for the MSc Neuroscience at King’s College, I often engage with students. When I speak with our MSc Neuroscience ...

'To cringe' can be defined as ‘having an inward feeling of acute embarrassment or awkwardness.’ This is a perfectly natural human...

How breast cancer treatment changed my relationship with my body—and how I'm learning to reconnect with it. When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, my primary focus was survival. I braced myself for the physical battle—the biopsies, the blood draws, the scans, and the surgeries. In the aftermath, grappling with post-op, post-radiation, and settling into the rhythm of daily hormone blockers, I realise there was something that I wasn’t prepared for: what comes next.

At 21, I had a series of urinary tract infections that culminated in a bladder surgery. These infections affected me physically—the post-op pelvic floor physical therapy was brutal—but the greatest impact was on my mental health. I’m sharing my story for Sexual Health Week because most women will suffer at least one UTI in their lifetime. The first urinary tract infection I got after college never went away. Not really. The burning sensation hit on a Sunday morning. “Yep, t

Good news! Young people in general are drinking less than older generations did and still do: around one-quarter of 16 to 24-year-olds don’t drink at all, compared with just over one-fifth of the broader adult population.

Trigger Warning: This article briefly mentions suicide. Every cat that I have helped has changed me in some way On many occasions in...

From lithium's (re)discovery to a gold standard in treatment: how an Australian psychiatrist's bold experiment reshaped psychiatry Photo...

Creating space for survivors of abuse: in a one-day workshop on coercive control, we explored what it means to reflect, create, and...

Trying to conceive (TTC) after a loss is its own kind of heartbreak. Not just because of what you’ve been through, but because of what you’re still hoping for. Every month becomes a question mark. Every symptom, a maybe. And in the middle of it all is you — grieving, hoping, surviving. When we lost our baby in October, I thought the hardest part would be the miscarriage itself. And in many ways, it was. But what I wasn’t prepared for was how hard the after would be. The waiti

Disclaimer: All names used in this piece do not reflect the real names of the individuals involved. The...

Streaming services have dominated the television and film distribution space over the last decade. With its rise, streaming powerhouses like Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+ brought with them a novel release method: entire seasons aired on the same day, at the same time.

The path through mental illness can be isolating, disorienting, and equally profoundly transformative. For those of us who have navigated...

I lost myself some time ago. I searched in vain until I found her in my bedroom mirror. Nineteen years later.

When someone receives a cancer diagnosis, the emotional and psychological toll can be just as profound as the physical journey ahead....

Let’s begin with good news. Young people in general are taking fewer drugs: around 17% of 16–24-year-olds took drugs in 2022–23, compared to 21% in 2019–20. However, such activities may be catastrophic for some teenagers, whose developing adolescent brains may never recover from taking toxic substances.

Recently, I have started a great job in communications, set up a decent writing business, and earned a journalism degree. I am also dating the most beautiful woman in the world, who has all three: the cheekiest smile, hair that smells like black castor oil, and my full commitment to becoming her husband. I'm absolutely terrified.

It is in our human nature to forget details of the past, especially as we grow older; memories from our childhood become less vivid. Many...

Image source: Bhautik Patel on Unsplash On most Monday mornings, the parking lots buzzed with a certain vigor. They chattered about all...

How I reclaimed my dreams, redefined success, and found myself again 25/5/25 - A date so precise it feels like destiny carved it into the calendar just for me. Not merely for its symmetry, but because it marks the beginning of a life I chose, a life I built, a self I reclaimed. But let’s rewind. On my 29th birthday, I had a startling realisation: for nearly a decade, I had been drifting - floating through my twenties on autopilot, letting life happen to me instead

Trigger Warning: The following article contains references to suicide and grief, which some readers may find distressing The text came...

Scientists often dive into research driven by two magic ingredients: caffeine and curiosity. Caffeine keeps us awake, and curiosity motivates us to solve complex questions and to push the boundaries of human knowledge. Locked away in labs, scientists work tirelessly to test hypotheses in all different areas of science. Unfortunately, many discoveries feel like they stay confined to publications, adding lines to a CV or increasing a citation index, rarely making it beyond

For decades, the concept of ‘Mum Brain’ has been synonymous with the experience of motherhood. It’s almost a rite of passage to experience the memory loss and brain fog of pregnancy and the postpartum period (also called Pregnancy Brain, Baby Brain, Mummy Brain, Mumnesia). But what if Mum Brain had more to do with the mental load of motherhood, namely the cognitive and emotional labour that primarily falls on mothers, and less to do with mum brains? I’m a neuroscientist wh