Mental Health

The life and times of a therapy dog

Lara was adopted from Battersea Dogs Home and became a therapy dog by default due to my job as a…

Twins generate a great deal of excitement and curiosity, and with the increasing frequency of twin births as a result…

Stress Awareness Month takes place every April and has since it first launched in 1992. Throughout this period of time, teams…

The conventional therapeutic approach to dealing with a problem like depression is to wait for the problem to set in…

Opioid addiction, fuelled by OTC medication and prescription pain killers, has reached epidemic proportions in the US but is becoming…

I am proud of having initiated Britain’s National Autism Project (NAP). This started in late 2014, reported in 2017 and…

Publication of our recent research on aluminium and autism has prompted myriad questions not least of which being ‘what next?’…

Edinburgh University’s Patrick Wild Centre was opened in 2010 by Alfred Wild who had watched his parents care for his…

Maintaining a consistent focus on something until, and if, it becomes an unconscious habit, is essentially a battle against our…

Should we always challenge the distorted beliefs of someone with dementia or do inaccurate memories play an important role in…