Death and disability
The Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Programme (LeDeR) in 2015 studied the mortality rates for people with learning disabilities (LD). Although…
Mental Health
All you need to know about crying
All animals well up with tears to clean or remove irritants from their eyes, but we are the only species…
How to stay calm at Christmas
Christmas is one of the most eagerly awaited events in the whole year, but for many people, Yuletide cheer comes…
Autism in sharp focus
Autism brings into sharp focus what it is to be human. I’d summarise autism as being a different way of…
Open access to memory clinics
Around 850,000 people in the UK are living with dementia, but the number of people who actually have the condition…
The ‘Cat with Nine Lives’ syndrome
'Many of my patients are experienced frequent fliers who develop a phobia of flying after spending decades hopping on and…
Fear of flying in an age of terrorism
The outrageous acts of terrorism that happened in New York on 9/11 have certainly meant that more people who are…
Mental Health and Immigrants
People who have migrated to a country from their homeland are much more vulnerable to mental illness. Between 1993 and…
No to fast-food mindfulness
Mindfulness, which is essentially meditation rebranded for the squeamish, is embedded in the history of Indic consciousness traditions such as…
The new digital addiction
Are we becoming a nation of digital technology addicts? Surely the figures speak for themselves. The average iPhone user unlocks…