My weakened mental health as a mother with a sick baby
I had never paid much attention to depression, anxiety, eating disorders or sleep deprivation, that is, until I had my second baby. She...
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Mao Fong Lim
- May 8, 2019
- 4 min
Emotions, Projected.
Film has always been a powerful and stirring medium for storytelling, especially around the theme of mental health. Here, we reflect on...
Jane Chang
- May 1, 2019
- 5 min
Diet and Exercise for Melancholy: Throwback to The 18th Century
Many may have viewed nutritional psychiatry as a new interest in the field of medicine, but it was actually an age-old remedy along with...
Carmine Pariante
- May 1, 2019
- 5 min
Every Pregnancy is Everyone’s Business
Maternal Mental Health Matters Awareness Week 2019 has just started, and we are going to celebrate it today with the launch of the...
Luca Sforzini
- Apr 24, 2019
- 5 min
It may NOT be just the weather
A biological overview of the seasonal changes across mood disorders “The changes of the seasons are especially liable to beget...
Melisa Kose
- Apr 24, 2019
- 5 min
Mental Health Through the Lens of Cinema, Episode 3: The ‘Mad Scientist’ Trope
Murderous, unstable, and practising medicine; how do the ways that films present psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience affect both...
Alessandra Biaggi
- Apr 10, 2019
- 4 min
Who is at risk of developing depression and anxiety in pregnancy?
Identifying women at risk could protect them and their infants. Perhaps not everyone knows that depression during pregnancy is as common...
Courtney Worrell
- Apr 10, 2019
- 5 min
BREAKING NEWS: Mental Health Patients Are NOT Criminals
Even if you aren’t picking up a physical paper and flicking through its pages, chances are that on occasion you have been scrolling down...
Etta Nettis
- Apr 3, 2019
- 6 min
Beware of labelling depressed people: “treatment resistant” does not mean “untreatable”
What can be done for people who do not respond to antidepressants: current guidelines and new perspectives I. Prologue: how I ended up...
Ellen Lambert
- Mar 27, 2019
- 6 min
Does Food Addiction exist?
The latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), a handbook used by healthcare professionals to diagnose mental...
Giulia Lombardo
- Mar 20, 2019
- 3 min
SEX DIFFERENCES IN MENTAL HEALTH: A REFLECTION
Only a little more than a month ago, on the morning of the 15th of February, I had my usual Italian breakfast in an unusual Airbnb in...
Luca Sforzini
- Mar 17, 2019
- 3 min
What’s worse than having cancer?
An overview of the biological link between cancer and depression (and how to win the chess match against them both). There is a silent...
Melisa Kose
- Mar 13, 2019
- 5 min
Mental Health Through the Lens of Cinema, Episode 2: Merging Genres for a Stronger Story
How is it that Daniel Radcliffe playing an undead amnesiac with superhuman abilities for 97 minutes in Swiss Army Man (2016) is somehow a...
Melisa Kose
- Mar 1, 2019
- 4 min
Mental Health Through the Lens of Cinema, Episode 1: The Divide Between Genres
Archaic portrayals of mental illness still bleed into the mainstream media of today. As exemplified by the uninspired notion of “crazy...
Kristi Priestley
- Mar 1, 2019
- 4 min
Why Mental Health Starts Before We Are Born
Why Mental Health Starts Before We Are Born: The Importance of Mental Wellbeing in Pregnancy Mental health is a growing topic in the...
Carmine Pariante
- Feb 23, 2018
- 3 min
Food for thought — recipes for a happy year
You want to be happier in 2019, and new year’s resolutions will not help, so why don’t you try some ‘food for thought’ recipes? I have...
Ashvin Kuri
- Aug 24, 2016
- 4 min
An Adolescent Boy’s View of Why Adolescent Boys Should Learn How to Express Their Emotions
Everybody is talking about adolescent boys and the fact that they do not express their emotions. In a recent interview, Prince Harry says...
Carmine Pariante
- Jun 29, 2016
- 4 min
Facts You Should Know About Psychiatry and Why It Is Helping the Person Next to You
You may have never met one of us, but you will know someone who has been helped by one of us. The elderly mother of your best friend, who...
Carmine Pariante
- May 17, 2016
- 4 min
There Are More Connections in the Human Brain Than There Are Stars in Our Milky Way Galaxy…
Neurones forming synaptic connection in the brain superimposed to the Milky Way: is our understanding of the mind and the brain equally...
Carmine Pariante
- Feb 29, 2016
- 4 min
Seven Things Lynn Did Not Know About Pregnancy
The Postpartum, and Why She Became Depressed I met Lynn Lu, a visual artist from Singapore, in November 2015. Lynn was working on an...
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