Individuals with many different psychiatric disorders have a higher tendency to choose smaller, immediate rewards over larger, delayed...

Alcohol is not the disinhibitor that people assume it is. Alcohol changes your perception of time- where once you start to drink, you...

This is a timely study after the end of the long summer holiday. In lectures I often discuss how parenting is bi-directional. Parenting...

Think your new romance will be much different from your last one? According to new University of Alberta research, it's not likely. An...

Researchers from the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, Yale University School of Medicine, the VA San Diego Healthcare System, and the...

How many times have you wished you could give your younger self a piece of advice? Robin Kowalski, professor in Clemson University's...

It is a common statement regarding substitute opiate prescribing. But sometimes in hospital settings alcohol dependent individuals are...

RMIT University researchers have used data from mobile phone accelerometers -- the tiny sensors tracking phone movement for step-counting...

A new paper that challenges widely held ideas about autism has attracted comments from more than 30 scholars across the disciplines of...

In lectures I often stress the importance of naming emotions in the client in the here and now. My mantra is always that a named emotion...

As I have often discuss in this blog, modality-or type of therapy-adds little to clinical outcomes with clients. For example, Orlinsky's...

A big thanks to my friend and colleague Colin Mackell for forwarding me this interesting article. In it the fantastic Prof Nick Heather...

I am very interested in how sacred values operate within the brain. In general terms, we are quite good on the mechanics of the brain...

In training and lectures I discuss the idea of homophily. This describes the how we tend to be drawn to others who are similar to us in...

On 18th June 2018 I will be speaking at the Cornwall and Devon Police and Crime Commissioner's seminar on Dual Diagnosis treatment...

Progress are a consortium of consultant nurses who established a professional forum in supporting practitioners and services users...

Experiences such as poverty, residential instability, or parental divorce or substance abuse, also can lead to changes in a child's brain...

In a first of its kind review, published in World Psychiatry -- the world's leading psychiatric research journal, the researchers...

Growing evidence shows that the brain's dopamine system, which drives motivation, is directly affected by chronic, low-grade...

Research finds that people with substance-use problems who read a message describing addiction as a disease are less likely to report...