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,...

The medical use of cannabis has hit the media headlines in recent weeks. In response, the Conversation have published a review of the...

It seems reasonable that people would want to maximize various aspects of life if they were given the opportunity to do so, whether it's...

A scientist at Duke University says the natural evolution of social organizations into larger and more complex communities that exhibit...

Recently, researchers have debunked the theories canonized in Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People that assume you...

People are often surprised when I explore the history of childhood, and by default parenting, when exploring child development. The role...

As I discussed in an earlier post, drug and alcohol problems are linked to six centers in the brain, particularly memory. Interesting...

Purdue University researchers think the gap between a psychologists' diagnosis and a patient's self-evaluation might not be as extreme as...

Depression is a mental disorder that affects over 300 million people around the world. While treatments exist, many of them are based on...

A USC research team identified 150 proteins affecting cell activity and brain development that contribute to mental disorders, including...

During a depressive episode the ability of the brain to form new brain cells is reduced. Scientists of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum...

My contract with Second Step as Lead on Psychological Therapies has now officially come to an end. Second Step is a leading mental...