Postnatal depression is not just for mums, says a post by Brain Blogger. Up to 10% of dads also suffer.
Continue reading Postnatal depression, masculinity and recovery.
May 2008 Archives
There's a very good piece in the Huffington Post about the potential of meditation in treating ADHD and other mental health problems.
Continue reading Meditation, ADHD and computer games.
The King's Fund have published a report this morning suggesting investment in mental health services must increase massively to cope with a rise in the number of people with dementia.
Continue reading King's Fund, dementia, tax rises, ECT and placebos.
It seems there is a gadget for everything these days - we can do pretty much anything with technology. But I've been wondering how much scope there is to use technology in the field of mental health.
Continue reading The gadget approach to mental health.
By Keith Sellick
An uplifting look at one man's struggle to overcome severe brain injury and return to his previous life - of being a pop star (well, not quite star).
Continue reading Edwyn Collins: Home Again.
Interesting piece in New Scientist about the link between insecticides in pet shampoo and autism.
Continue reading Autism and insecticides.
What are your views on ECT? The Telegraph has published an article today from someone who is clearly very much a fan, claiming it can save lives in cases of severe depression.
Continue reading What do you think of ECT?.
By Keith Sellick
I know I have posted on hearing voices before but BBC Radio's Thinking Allowed recently featured a sociological study about the subject.
Continue reading Thinking allowed: hearing voices.
It seems the government has decided that cannabis should be reclassified as a class B drug, ignoring the advice of its expert committee.
Continue reading Cannabis reclassification.
By Keith Sellick
BBC's look into personalities focused on spirituality this week. What was particularly interesting was a discussion on the hearing of voices. People who hear the voices of God/Jesus/Mary are deemed to be blessed and sane; those hearing "bad voices" are deemed to be mad.
Continue reading Am I Normal: Spirituality.
The New York Times has a very interesting story about the links between some of the people who oversee one of the most important psychiatry handbooks.
Continue reading Psychiatry handbook and the drugs industry.
The BBC has a load of psychology tests on its site, which seem a relatively untaxing way of spending the day after a bank holiday.
Continue reading BBC psychology tests, vitamin D and the CIA.
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