Many people think of psychedelics as relics from the hippie generation or something taken by ravers and music festival-goers, but they...

Do dopamine neurons have a role in causing cues in our environment to acquire value? And, if so, do different groups of dopamine neurons...

Moral dilemmas are often critical feature of working with clients in everyday practice, especially when they become stuck in difficult...

I love what moral dilemmas can tell us about our brains and how we make decisions. This is a great example of a moral dilemma which pits...

Psychiatric medications have focused heavily on neurotransmitters as the basis of mental health disorders.Researchers at Columbia...

If you're a parent who feels your college-age children would choose their friends over you, a new UCLA psychology study has a reassuring...

In lectures I describe that there are two types of fear in humans, innate and learned. Whilst innate fears are located in the amygdala,...

Working with families I always emphasis that parenting is not the fixed attribute inherent within the parent. Parenting is determined by...

Here is a really interesting article published in the Big Think that explains the links between sleep and PTSD. Click here to read.

It has long been believed that only the minority of people could recover from schizophrenia. However, a Norwegian research team have...

Nothing cheers me up as much as a quirky research study on the humble fruit fly. We share approximately 65 per cent of our DNA with...

In lectures on adolescent development I always draw peoples attention to the additional risk of drug and alcohol involvement faced by...

While we can "decide" to think about certain things, other information -- including activities we have learned like counting -- can enter...

Binge drinking patterns are one of the hardest drinking habits to break, especially in young people and students.Researchers found the...

Researchers have conducted one of the largest surveys of people's first memories, finding that nearly 40 per cent of people had a first...

Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with my perennial interest in the psychology of political thinking. Certainly, in these...

My intuition is that there are a lot of very different disorders which present with a very similar symptom profile which are broadly...

In a recent blog entry Problems Expand with Solutions, I described the psychological process whereby people fail to recognize progress. ...

In lectures on life course development I often discuss the differences between men and women and in particular, in what genders value in...

Stressful situations affect the brain and body differently in people with schizophrenia compared to people without the mental illness or...