Continuing our A to Z series, Meredith [placement student] describes in this blog post the concept of mental well-being.
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Why do some people struggle emotionally after experiencing stressful events, but not others?
It is often discussed how strange it is that people are so different to their family members. After all, shared genes and a shared home environment should lead to strong family resemblance, right? Not necessarily.
For the letter T in our A-Z series, Chris discusses the emerging field of Therapygenetics.
This blog explains our latest publication in which we analysed Twins Early Development Study data on emotional problems across childhood and adolescence. Accurate assessment is difficult but essential if we are to understand the influences on emotional problems. We took advantage of longitudinal data (i.e. taken across time) to define…
This week for our S blog, we bring a post on the important issue of statistical significance, written by a guest blogger from the Said & Dunn blog, led by Dr Erin Dunn. This post is by Khalil Zlaoui, a graduate student in the Dunn Lab. We are very grateful…
Most of us have probably heard friends or family tell us to “stop overthinking things”. Is this good advice? The answer is probably yes, if what you’re doing is ruminating. Daniel fills us in on rumination, how it increases our risk of mental health problems, and what we can do…
After a short break (most of the team have been off enjoying their summer holidays!) the A-Z blog is back! Since we are just over halfway through the A-Z series, Tom [EDIT Lab PhD student] has put together a quiz based on all our previous posts for you to test…
In this post Robert Chapman [PhD student at Goldsmiths, University of London] contemplates what the future holds for the long-awaited genetic revolution.
At the end of her last blog post, Laura briefly touched upon how as well as working on the stigma surrounding mental health, a lot also needs to be done within Minority Ethnic communities. Having recently attended another talk at King’s College London: Diversity & Psychiatry: Old Battles and New…
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