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I want to start this with a huge thank you. To our friends and family who have been there with us, to the amazing NHS staff who helped...

Metabolites derived from omega-3 fatty acids could help reduce depression: dream or reality? I am a senior postdoctoral neuroscientist at...

The Biology of Depression, and Being on the Path to Discovery I am a scientist and I work with a team of researchers who spend their...

An interview with Elliott Rae, founder of "Music.Football.Fatherhood." “It was 2015 and mental health wasn’t really a thing at that...

Imparting a Love of Music — But Does it Go Beyond Enjoyment? I remember the feeling of euphoria the first time I played the drums. At...

Reflections from the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists: Party Conference season I was pleased to be invited to write this...

Chasing Happiness After the week-long hustle in the office, sitting with a cup of masala tea on a Sunday morning always feels delightful...

The Immune Factor: A potential contributor to autism spectrum conditions? After almost two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, I bet we’ve...

When Anxiety Gets Physical I’m Alice. I’m a freelance writer and editor with anxiety and depression, fibromyalgia and functional...

Recognising empathy as a cornerstone for making a meaningful impact in a post-COVID world: The Shepley Parkin Empathy Award Emerging from...

Addiction: The depths and the recovery with professional boxer Charlie Duffield In my twenties, I suffered from a gambling addiction that...

I am a child and adolescent psychiatrist and neuroscientist working with the Stress, Psychiatry, and Immunology Laboratory (the team that...

So many of our greatest successes start from a dark place Watching a TV program about 1995, I realized that year held some of the darkest...

I am a researcher at the Stress, Psychiatry and Immunology (SPI) Lab at Kings College London, a Nutritionist and part of the team that...

Let me preempt this piece by saying that I hate the coronavirus pandemic. As a professional magician and freelance writer, the...

My name is Aida and I’m a second-year student at King’s College London, currently studying Global Health and Social Medicine BSc. I’d...

I’ve cried on ashen floors of working men’s clubs. 96, 98, 2000, 2002, 2004. Oh my god, will it end? Oh my god! Oh my god!...

I’m often asked if the effects of motherhood on the brain will last forever. Short answer — yes! And this looks like a good thing. I’m a...

There have long been calls to reform or change the way we look and talk about education in the UK, but never has it been talked about so...

My name is Milad and I was born in Kabul in 1996. The same year that the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in a bitterly fought civil...

The days of lockdowns ending were always going to be tricky. Is it too soon? Will there be another one (spoiler: probably)? Can we stop...

The role of psychiatric symptoms and parenting stress Postpartum psychosis: which are the symptoms and which women are more at risk...

Over recent weeks there has understandably been a huge amount of media coverage of the situation in Afghanistan. This has focused on the...