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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....

Have you ever experienced an emotion so strong it felt as if you were losing touch with your own self? Did you feel like these emotions...

Just last month, I was chatting to a friend, who happens to be a doctor, about my research. She asked me: “So, really? You would classify...

In recent years, more and more attention has been placed on the concept that the psychological development of a child is the result of a...

We all experience stress. Whether garden-variety stressors (the task that was due last week, the pile of laundry that keeps growing, the...

The period following childbirth represents a very delicate phase of settling and redefinition of personal and relational identity for new...

Disclaimer: The intention with this blog is to discuss some of the ways that myself and others have noticed that brands use times like...

You might have seen the recent headlines. The Sun: The Mirror: Millions taking antidepressants ‘must be warned of dangerous side effects’...

‘The Wounded Healer’ — Harnessing the Power of the Performing Arts to Reduce Mental Health Related Stigma in Healthcare Professionals and...

I have spent much of the morning trying to find the right sentence with which to start an article. I am playing with the phrase ‘it is a...