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Editor’s Note: The language used in the following piece is in reference to the time period in which the events discussed take place. In...

How can architecture support our mental health? Part 2 Last week, we began with an overview of how architecture can influence our mental...

Agnosia: Looking to Your Surroundings from a Different Perspective As a Neuroscience postgraduate student at King’s College London, I...

A Journey Through the Literature of Ukraine: From a pet penguin to a slice of cherry pie Eastern European literature is close to my heart...

A Letter from Lviv: Courage in Ukraine and Beyond Today marks three weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine on all fronts and a bit more than...

The Fight for Better Working Conditions and Equal Pay: What do the university strikes mean, and how do they affect student and staff...

How can architecture support our mental health? - Part One Good architecture, like psychology and psychiatry, runs the gamut from hard...

Molecular Investigation of Bear Bile: A gift from Nature and Traditional Chinese Medicine to the World Disclaimer: In presenting the...

On the Road to Help Ukraine: An interview with Dennis Ougrin What is most surprising about my conversation on the phone with Dennis...

Using MRI to Investigate the Brain Response to Inflammatory Stimuli In my previous blog, The Inflamed Brain: How inflammation can affect...

Recognizing & Healing the Inner-Child The world of adults believes that they’ve grown up and left the silly child they once were behind....

Under Attack: Associations between childhood trauma and inflammation in adulthood Trigger warning: This blog discusses topics of...

How do you maintain recovery from an eating disorder, even when it gets boring? When we talk about recovery from an eating disorder, we...

All my life, I have been told I was just a picky eater. Even as a toddler, I struggled to eat and drink without gagging. Doctors told my...

Eating Disorders in University Students: A snapshot of the prevalence, recognition and ways to seek help Do you have any food rules, such...

Escape from Ukraine: Mental health in displaced populations. Since my days as head of Wellcome’s History of Medicine programme...

Do eating disorders impact the brain? Eating disorders affect the lives of so many… Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating...

This is Going to Hurt — But Shouldn’t Have to: An interview with Dr Ally Jaffee Trigger warning: This blog contains discussions of mental...

LGBTQ+ Mental Health: Revisiting the past to understand the present Recalling and naming the collective oppressed history of LGBTQ+...

Clozapine: Knowing its flaws to optimize its potential When people find out what my job is, it is frequent that I hear jokes about me...

Losing a Loved One Losing a parent is a grief-filled traumatic experience. We as humans understand that losing loved ones is inevitable....

Anxiety in families: Exploring the causes As a Research Associate at King’s College London, my work is focused on trying to understand...

An under-appreciated harm arising from burning fossil fuels is the mental health effects of pollution. This is one of the issues explored...

LGBTQI+ mental health during the pandemic My name is Paul Gorczynski. I am a psychologist who conducts research relating to various...