A new tool, developed by researchers from the University of Adelaide, will assist clinicians to assess people suffering from major...

A great privilege of running this blog is to share some of the work of practitioners who have inspired me but whose work is not often as...

More youth use cannabis than smoke cigarettes in the United States. In other parts of the world, cannabis use has become almost as...

Alcohol abuse is more complicated than simply drinking too much. There may be five separate types of problem drinkers, according to Penn...

A major international collaboration headed by researchers from the Danish iPSYCH project, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT,...

Neighborhood violence has been associated with adverse health effects on youth, including sleep loss, asthma and metabolic syndrome. Yet...

Researchers at RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) have revealed that one quarter of suicide attempts are associated with...

In lectures and training I always emphasis that other factors contribute to the clients outcome than just the model of practice. These...

I remain ambivalent about drug laws. So the emergence of "legal highs" or "new psychoactive substances" as they are now called has...

As part of an ongoing series of blog articles, the role of laughter appears once again in an interesting article in the Conversation. It...

A large scale study has found that people with autism show higher male trait scores in systemic thinking over empathetic thinking, above...

In training and lectures people often refer to spiritual or mystical approaches to psychological healing, but often find it hard to cite...

I am currently looking at psychological pain management techniques that can reduce the intensity of withdrawal symptoms in detoxification...

It is one of the most fundamental questions in neuroscience: How do humans think? Until recently, we seemed far from a conclusive answer....

A theory called the cultural brain hypothesis could explain extraordinary increases in brain size in humans and other animals over the...

Few things can delight an adult more easily than the uninhibited, effervescent laughter of a baby. Yet baby laughter, a new study shows,...

A comprehensive Australian study examining the global impact of suicide prevention approaches in young people has found that...

A study just published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, analyzed the traits of 1.5 million using a unique logarithms. What did it...

In previous blog entries I shared research that showed that children and young people who were exposed to childhood trauma demonstrated...

Artificial intelligence can help us to better understand the causes of religious violence and to potentially control it, according to a...