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In 2008, Juliet Russell, Diccon Towns and I set up Salon London to get Londoners together with academics, experts, authors and their...

“A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind… All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never...

Bringing the brain and the mind back together again In the 1600’s French philosopher Rene Descartes proposed that the mind and the body...

I literally talk about my inner monologue and then sell it” Many know her as Låpsley, but to me she is Holly Lapsley Fletcher: singer,...

“Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you” The Girl Who Chased the Moon, Sarah Addison...

I’ve been working in forensic mental health, that is the system that manages men and women who commit a crime that is deemed to be a...

I have wanted to work in Clinical Psychology for as long as I can remember. Being able to connect with people and offer emotional support...

Almost twenty years have passed since the birth of the digital world (Berners Lee 1999). The creation and subsequent rise of the Internet...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is quite common. It affects about one in 20 children and is three or four times more...

Mental health is now mentioned on a daily basis — in the press and media, within industry and employers, health and social care,...

Singing and dancing is not something you routinely associate with our Parliamentarians — unless you think this expression applies to the...

A psychiatrist’s view on how leaders should act as therapists to bring people together. This can truly be called an age of rage; everyone...

It’s the 20th anniversary of The Matrix, one of the best Kung Fu movies ever. The Matrix. And, in a totally unrelated coincidence,...

Walking on an empty street of London: the illuminated windows, the colours and the shadows are always different. Behind every window...

The debate over the psychological impact of violent gaming has been going on for years. If you ask worried parents, they might complain...

Pursuing an academic career is tough. It requires hard work, a considerable dose of self-confidence and an even greater amount of...

Not surprisingly (perhaps because we are the Stress, Psychiatry and Immunology Laboratory — the SPI Lab, and this is, by the way, the...

As I sit here and write this, I find it hard to fathom the thought of wanting to end my own life. I’ve just returned to work after my...

An old story I would like to start my blog by telling you an old story… It was a hot day in August 2008, when Tony Wyss-Coray sat in a...

Predicting Children’s Health: The Promise of Blood Tests What if children could get a test at the doctor’s office that would tell them if...

Stress — it’s a hot topic for discussion. It seems that every day we are confronted with new information on managing it. The body has...

Having a baby is considered a unique and incomparable experience in the life of any woman, and breastfeeding is often described as one of...

Social media platforms are constantly growing and becoming a central part of people’s lives, especially for the younger generations....