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Emma Watson in Conversation with Dr Denis Mukwege, presented by The New York Times and how to: Academy Trigger warning — This blog...

In her TED talk Dr. Sacks explains that, just like adolescence, ‘matrescence’ is a time of feeling “hormonal and moody…skin breaking...

A coldish evening and I am back from a class on how to give a presentation, cradling a mug of celebratory hot chocolate. Even the thought...

Adolescent depression is on stage in London: at the KILN Theatre, in ‘The Son’ by Florian Zeller, and at the Royal Society of Medicine,...

A tense body means a tense mind. Equally, if you are physically relaxed, it is impossible to be anything other than mentally relaxed....

I had never paid much attention to depression, anxiety, eating disorders or sleep deprivation, that is, until I had my second baby. She...

Film has always been a powerful and stirring medium for storytelling, especially around the theme of mental health. Here, we reflect on...

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...

Maternal Mental Health Matters Awareness Week 2019 has just started, and we are going to celebrate it today with the launch of the...

A biological overview of the seasonal changes across mood disorders “The changes of the seasons are especially liable to beget...

Murderous, unstable, and practising medicine; how do the ways that films present psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience affect both...

Identifying women at risk could protect them and their infants. Perhaps not everyone knows that depression during pregnancy is as common...

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...

The latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), a handbook used by healthcare professionals to diagnose mental...

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...

An overview of the biological link between cancer and depression (and how to win the chess match against them both). There is a silent...

How is it that Daniel Radcliffe playing an undead amnesiac with superhuman abilities for 97 minutes in Swiss Army Man (2016) is somehow a...

Archaic portrayals of mental illness still bleed into the mainstream media of today. As exemplified by the uninspired notion of “crazy...

Why Mental Health Starts Before We Are Born: The Importance of Mental Wellbeing in Pregnancy Mental health is a growing topic in the...

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...

Everybody is talking about adolescent boys and the fact that they do not express their emotions. In a recent interview, Prince Harry says...

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...

Neurones forming synaptic connection in the brain superimposed to the Milky Way: is our understanding of the mind and the brain equally...