PhD mental health: From awareness to action
With nearly 1 in 2 postgraduate students experiencing mental health issues during their PhD, Zoë Ayres challenges universities to actively address the rising postgraduate mental health problem.
Tagged: mental health
What peer research brings to mental health science
Doing science, peer researcher style. Stephanie Allan investigates how, what and why?
AI and mental health: big data and feelings
Anna explores how artificial intelligence could be used to study, as well as improve, our mental health.
Mens Sana in Corpore Sano – A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body
It’s not just about looking cool on social media – practicing yoga poses can shape our brain!
PhD: Please help, Depressed.
Diagnosed with depression at the start of her PhD and with research revealing 1 in 2 PhD students has a mental health condition, Audrey shares her experience and how to access help should you need it.
Reversing the effects of Alzheimer’s Disease?
Pamela Atanasova investigates how scientists managed to reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer’s in one week!
How #FOMO may be affecting your mental health
Holly Scott investigates how a Fear of Missing Out is leaving many social media users tired, anxious and depressed.
Meditations on mindfulness: all it’s cracked up to be?
Mindfulness-based therapy – as a more ‘natural’ alternative to drugs – to treat depression or anxiety is very popular at the moment. But how much of the recent zeal for mindfulness is rooted in science, and how much is marketing?
