Humans are born with a part of the brain that is prewired to be receptive to seeing words and letters, setting the stage at birth for...

We like people like us. However, as we age, we get even more selective about our friendship groups. When humans age, they tend to favor...

There are well documented risk factors associated with developing substance use disorder across all age groups. A recent study from IUPUI...

Anxiety, the most common family of mental illnesses, has been pushed to epic new heights by the COVID-19 pandemic. A report by an...

The Office for National Statistics have published the latest report on drug related deaths in England and Wales. The main findings...

Everybody, it seems, is stressed out to some degree by the coronavirus pandemic. It may be anguish over the sickness or death of a friend...

Today I spent the day with a great team of youth workers from across the country and we were discussing personality structure and...

Lockdown has been a difficult time. Isolation, separation from loved ones, home schooling and diminished socialisation has taken a toll...

A National Institutes of Health-funded study found that people with substance use disorders (SUDs) are more susceptible to COVID-19 and...

As my colleagues in Cornwall will testify, I love a Marshmallow test. The classic experiment has been reproduced several times in...

People who binge-drink show more extensive dysfunction across their brains than previously realised, a new study from the University of...

The emotional brain cannot speak to us but speaks through us. The emotional brain shapes the language we use at an almost unconscious...

As any parent will tell you, no two children behave in exactly the same way. It is part of what makes each individual unique. So, why do...

A common consequence of chronically high alcohol consumption is a decline in cognitive function, which can even progress to full-blown...

In training and lectures on personality, I describe the five key traits of our temperament. One of these traits is Openness to...

A trusting therapeutic relationship and outcome-oriented collaboration between therapist and patient are critical for the successful...

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have identified a set of modifiable factors from a field of over 100 that could...

The endogenous regulation of a specific gene is associated with a reduced risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder following a...

High Dead Space needles are those that retain some fluid in the barrel of the syringe after injecting. As such they are prone to gather...

A psychiatrist once told me that the only thing that would constitute a radical opinion in Psychiatry today was actually agreeing with...