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Mental Health

Empathy makes you a better doctor

It’s just common sense that doctors who have empathy make better doctors. However, until now, the benefit to patients has…

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…

Twinship: a subversive relationship

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

Stress Awareness Month

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

Functional medicine: treating depression

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

Opioid addiction fuelled by painkillers

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

Let’s focus on autism

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

Aluminium and autism: what next?

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

The Autistic Mind

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

The battle against our unruly minds

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

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