In training I always make the distinction that what is termed risk taking behavior in young people is really them trialing out adult...

In the largest functional brain imaging study to date, the Amen Clinics (Newport Beach, CA) compared 46,034 brain SPECT (single photon...

More research has emerge regarding self-perception and anxiety. In lecturers I demonstrate how anxiety can be reduced by taking a...

Psychedelic drugs are making a psychiatric comeback. After a lull of half a century, researchers are once again investigating the...

In lectures I discuss how it is possible to reduce anxiety by shifting perspective from the emotional / immediate self to a detached /...

In lecturers I often discuss how the emotional brain takes the big decisions or hijacks the rational brain without us being aware of it. ...

Two recent studies caught my eye on body language. In the first study the eye movements of of heterosexual students were tracked whilst...

How many times have you heard people deride counselling based interventions as just "talk." Interesting advances in brain imaging has...

A recent study at Bath University of 200 teenagers has revealed interesting gender differences between teenage males and females with...

In lectures regarding the functions of different human emotions, the topic that interests most participants is when I discuss the role of...

In training and lectures I discuss how depression can be side-stepped. Rather than over thinking, which is strongly related t depressive...

Studies of children growing in stressful environments always views them from a deficit lens. However, many of the behaviors that are...

Recent developments in the area of immuno-psychiatry have begun to identify that prenatal viral infection may be responsible for the...

In training and lectures I often discuss how the brain processes information in two different ways. This includes the pre-frontal cortex...

Drugs have a wide range of side effects. However, one side effect that is rarely discussed and little known is the effect drugs can have...

Biases are very important to the human brain. They spare us the time and effort from having to think too much about everything all the...

There is always a great deal of discussion in my training and lectures on child and adolescent development regarding attachment theory. ...

The effects of poverty on human psychology is an under-researched area. However, new insights from brain scanning and cognitive testing...

Sacred values, those that really matter to us, guide individual and group decisions in life. We rarely trade off these sacred values in...

A new study using fMRI brain scanning has revealed that religious and spiritual experiences activate the brain reward circuits in much...