In this post Professor Alice Gregory [EDIT Lab collaborator and former PhD student] discusses the aetiology of sleep problems – giving us a taster of what to expect from her book, ‘Nodding Off: The Science of Sleep’
This week on the blog Kara writes about conduct problems and the importance of identifying and understanding differing aetiologies and trajectories across through the lifespan.
Today we have some reflections from Dr Holan Liang, part-time Consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at UCL, on her journey through academia, motherhood, writing and part-time clinical work in medicine. You can follow her on Twitter on @shrinkgrowskids.
Following on from April’s stress awareness month, Megan discusses stress in the context of gender dysphoria, and provides information on how to help those that may be suffering.
Around 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem every year (MIND), yet despite it being so prevalent, about 90% of those with mental health problems report having to face some form of stigma – whether that’s from their friends and family, work, education or…
Next year, the average British person will check their phone more than 10,000 times and 4,000 of these will be made compulsively. Facebook. Instagram. Snapchat. Most of us have an account on at least one of these social media platforms and they often play a big part in our lives….
This week, following on from our previous blog on mental health in mums, we are delighted to welcome past EDITlab PhD student, Hannah Brown, now mum to a one-year-old boy. In this post she shares her fears and strategies about depression and anxiety in the early days of motherhood.
On the 28th of November the BBC and BBC Radio 5 Live were raising awareness for mums and mental health. Mothers everywhere were invited to join in online using the hashtag: #MumTakeOver. They had presenters come in to discuss their own, sometimes difficult experiences of having babies and becoming mothers….
The experience and reality of mental health and the stigma surrounding it is becoming an increasingly popular topic to broach through works of fiction. Today on the blog Megan has pulled together a summary of some novels that tackle these topics. Megan With mental health being talked about more…
A recent blogpost in the research policy section on the website of HEFCE (the Higher Education Funding Council for England) – a place which might well have a creditable claim to the highly-contested title of ‘Nerdiest Corner of the Internet’ – highlights the body’s continuing focus on interdisciplinary research in…
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