It feels dangerously heretical to question the inherent goodness of an idea that has dominated the self-help world for a decade. However,...

Junk food seems to affect our ability to regulate appetite and thereby consumption, so that eating junk food makes it genuinely harder to...

When anyone "overreacts," the chances are that their reaction is in proportion to what they subconsciously think has just happened. The...

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We explain how periodontitis (gum disease) could be linked to mental health and how dental professionals could help with mental health...

Our modern brains retain a primitive ‘threat detection’ system which is constantly scanning the world for danger and problems that...

Inflammation is increasingly billed as the root cause of a dizzying range of psychiatric conditions, from depression to addiction,...

Cold water swimmers can seem almost evangelical about their post-swimming 'high’ and credit cold swims with curing depression, anxiety...

We've seen in the previous posts that we can improve our chances of lasting change if we take into account the real role of the behavior...

Understanding a little about the basic neuroscience of change helps us better understand what really helps and why; and why change is so...