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Content warning: This article includes brief mentions of suicide. I mentioned back when I did my article on Shirley Jackson that before I...

Interview with Dr Graziana D’Addabbo by Yuri Milaneschi You’re a couple, ‘specially when your body’s doubled. Massive Attack, Karmacoma...

Neuralink is one of several neurotechnological companies currently developing implantable brain-computer interfaces. The company was...

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

Has the arrival of autumn made you feel anxious? For many of us, it’s a return to a more stressful life after the summer holidays when the living was easier. We may be mourning the arrival of shorter days and longer nights; the lack of sunshine and, with, it lower levels of feel good hormones such as serotonin and dopamine; and the feeling that Winter is on its way. One answer to my own Autumnal low mood is poetry. Poets have furnished me with two new ways of thinking about t

A caregiver can be defined as someone who provides care for someone else in the form of time and labour-intensive tasks. These tasks can...

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...

People open up to me. They feel comfortable sharing some of their deepest secrets. This awareness has been with me for a while. It...

Trigger warning: This article makes reference to sexual violence against women. Whilst we talk about abuse to women, our support extends...

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.

The evolutionary function of loneliness is believed to be a signal from the brain to change lifestyle and increase social connections...

Last July, I had a panic attack at Boston Logan International Airport. I was flying home to Manchester after a month in New Hampshire,...

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

Unveiling the Power of Compassion Last year, I completed a master’s degree in health psychology at King’s College London. Now, I am a...

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...

I was depressed in my teenage years, but I didn’t know it. For most of the time during what are meant to be the happiest years of your...

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

This year’s theme is “Stories To Tell”, and is dedicated to celebrating the stories that contribute to the South Asian Community.

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

This article contains spoilers It’s safe to say that Barbie has taken the world by storm. With a marketing campaign seemingly tinging...