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An Optimist's Guide to Recent COVID-19 Research
“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...

Ffion Harris
Sep 1, 20227 min read


At the Back of Your Mind: A fun, fresh mental health podcast
Hosted by mental health researchers at King’s College London We were on the way out of the final UK lockdown when a group of young female...

Inspire the Mind
Sep 1, 20223 min read


YouTopian Journey: The Inner Journey for an Outer World
The Inner Journey for an Outer World It came from the east. A virus that changed the world. The mental health, especially of Gen Z and...

Shaun Gold
Aug 31, 20225 min read


Wearable Technologies: The future of healthcare?
Recent estimates forecast that 1 billion people worldwide will be using wearable devices to track their levels of sleep and activity by...

Faith Matcham
Aug 29, 20224 min read


Healthy Mum, Healthy Baby, Healthy Future
A vision for changing the wellbeing of future generations by tackling the longstanding shortcomings in maternal healthcare The...

Hannah Chance
Aug 25, 20224 min read


Does Talking About Mental Health Too Much Harm Our Mental Health?
I am a freelance science journalist and I have previously written for The Guardian, BBC, National Geographic, Gizmodo, Wired, and more. I...

Sofia Quaglia
Aug 17, 20226 min read


Imposter Syndrome and How We Can Overcome It - Part 1
Am I a Fraud? - Imposter Syndrome and How We Can Overcome It (Part 1 of 2) Have you ever thought ‘am I truly deserving of my position?’,...

neurominded
Aug 17, 20226 min read


How are Ukrainian mental health workers responding to a collective crisis?
Better me: smartphone wellbeing support The stats are overwhelming: back in 2017, 84.6 % of Ukrainians from the general population...

Yuliya Kovalchuk
Aug 11, 20224 min read


Recovering from Anorexia Empowered Me to Reject the Norm and Live My Truth
Trigger warning: This blog discusses personal experiences of anorexia. I am an author and mental health advocate who has lived with an...

Julia Tannenbaum
Aug 9, 20226 min read


Using Heartbeat Measures to Understand and Improve Treatment for Depression
When it comes to diagnosing physical illnesses, there are a myriad of different biological tests that can be done to correctly diagnose...

Nancy Gullett
Aug 3, 20224 min read


Self-harm is so much more complex than attention seeking
Trigger warning: This blog discusses personal experiences of self-harm. Disclaimer: While this blog shares personal accounts of...

Lowri Llewelyn
Aug 2, 20225 min read


The NHS and Training Programmes are inflexible for doctors who are different: This must change now.
“Anna has openly shared in a variety of settings her mental health difficulties. This has led me at times to be concerned about her...

Anna Sri
Aug 1, 20225 min read


Social and Cultural Influences on Immunity: Sketching Social Immunology
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted fundamental truths about infectious disease in humans. First, the makeup of our societies helps...

Eric Shattuck
Jul 27, 20225 min read


Why the Superwoman Archetype is Damaging for Women
It’s a sunny day and I’m sitting in the living room with my eldest daughter reading her end of year school report. She’s worried about...

Natali Simmonds
Jul 26, 20225 min read


Is it possible to support both university student wellbeing AND learning?
It’s possible to support wellbeing AND learning for university students through the curriculum! The curriculum refers to learning,...

Rebecca Upsher
Jul 25, 20224 min read


Many Years in the Life of an Obsessive-Compulsive
Content Warning: This blog is about mental health, OCD and intrusive thoughts of a violent and sexually harmful nature that some may find...

Ria Fay
Jul 21, 20225 min read


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

Sofia Quaglia
Jul 20, 20226 min read


Insights on the Complexity of the Prenatal Opioid Epidemic
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...

Brittany Smith
Jul 18, 20224 min read


How Ukrainians are using Virtual Reality to improve their mental health
Virtual reality (VR) has been finding more exciting applications for healthcare: VR tools help ease chronic pain, change body...

Yuliya Kovalchuk
Jul 13, 20225 min read


Reflecting on Day 1 of FLEXchange
An Interdisciplinary Curriculum Development Workshop in Arts, Health and Humanities at King’s College London Today, our Inspire the Mind...

Mollie Brown
Jul 12, 20224 min read


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

Henry Musto
Jul 11, 20226 min read


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

Prof Russell Razzaque
Jul 6, 20225 min read


Ramadan Reflections
A blog written by Amina, Subeyda and Maryam (Assistant Editors of InSPIre the Mind) — — — Ramadan is a special time for Muslims all...

Amina Begum
Jul 5, 20225 min read


Promoting student mental health at university
Promoting student mental health at university necessitates changes in students’ educational and residential environments: A conversation...

Gargi Mandal
Jul 4, 20225 min read
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