Researchers have recently begun to realize that biological sex plays a key role in disease risk. Sex plays a role in hypertension,...

Everyone's so busy these days that it is easy to think you need to schedule time to have fun. But be careful about how you do that, said...

When educators and coaches make kids feel like they matter, it reduces delinquency and destructive behavior. A new study led by a...

Some brain networks become more densely connected during adolescence while others become less so, according to a new analysis published...

I hugely admire Prof Dan Gilbert's research. You will see numerous references to his intriguing research on the nature of happiness on...

Whilst autism is not really my area, I am often asked about elements of the disorder. So I thought I would share some of the latest...

Special training for teachers may mean big results for students with autism spectrum disorder, according to Florida State University and...

In lectures on anxiety and trauma I describe how the re-writing of memories can alter the emotional response we experience from...

Fatemeh Akhlaghi, the Ernest Mario Distinguished Chair in Pharmaceutics, is part of a team working to develop a novel medication to treat...

In teaching Motivational Interviewing I describe how we need to listen to the emotional emphasis of the client's statements rather than...

There is a lot of interest in the role that the auto-immune system plays in the development of psychosis. For a very readable review of...

I am pleased to be involved in the pilot with Bristol City Council's Community Housing team's PIE pilot. I will be working with the...

In lectures and training I always emphasis that genetic expressions are not fixed but change over time. Epigenetics is the study of how...

I am a big fan of Prof Walter Mischel and his wonderfully simple but hugely influential Marshmallow Tests (you can see some original...

I have always been skeptical of primary genetic addiction models. The idea that disorders such as alcoholism was driven by gene actions...

The World Health Organisation has defined Gaming addiction as a disorder in the International Classification of Disorders (11 Edition). ...

Charities often operate from the basic assumption that any interventions in a vulnerable person life is somehow beneficial. I hate the...

People are often surprised when I cite studies that show that non-drinkers have a lower life expectancy than those who drink alcohol. An...

Practitioners of a particular persuasion often take um-bridge at the idea that too much parental involvement can be a bad thing. This is...

Treatment for the most common mental health problems could be ineffective or even detrimental to about 50 percent of the population,...