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06 February 2021

COVID, stress, trauma and why we need to prioritise children’s mental health

11 January 2021

neglecting neglect

24 September 2020

Childhood Obesity: A RE-EXAMINATION OF WHAT IS REALLY CAUSING IT

07 September 2020

Obesity, Immunity, Trauma, Covid-19: Science and Avoiding Fat Shaming

21 June 2020

DEEPER THAN SKIN DEEP Black lives matter, racism, evolved capacities for prejudice and finding empathy and compassion

20 April 2020

Covid-19, Disproportionate BAME deaths, inequality and adverse childhood experience. A serious plague

07 April 2020

Brief briefings from isolation. Zooming in or zoomed out? Tech use and small silver linings

13 March 2020

Coronavirus, moral panic, psychic and physical threat, danger and social immunity

21 January 2019

Neglecting Neglect: Why Therapists Do It & How We Can Break the Cycle

14 April 2017

Joining forces; Telomeres, social, psychological and political challenges

18 February 2017

Death penalty for being abused? The price is too high for society and disadvantaged young people

02 December 2016

Obesity, unhappiness, and poverty: the urgent need to avoid simplistic solutions

03 July 2016

Brexit, project fear, brains, racism inequality and the other

05 June 2016

Austerity and neoliberalism are bad for our health and wellbeing

22 March 2016

Touch, physical and emotional. Abuse or neglect?

25 November 2015

Pornography, adolescents and addiction

19 August 2015

Diabetes, soaring health costs and investing in children's psychological lives

07 July 2015

Austerity, psychological help and challenging neoliberalism

22 April 2015

Austerity, psychotherapy and worsening mental health

05 March 2015

Fighting for good public services: Now for midwives and continuous care

16 November 2014

Fat is a political issue: obesity , unhappiness and avoiding simplistic solutions

28 September 2014

Investing in health? We need early interventions or else it is too late

11 August 2014

The importance of the lost arts of play, doing nothing and just being

24 June 2014

The fiver challenge, primary school kids as Alan Sugar acolytes?

05 June 2014

Raising driven immoral kids?

04 May 2014

Neuromythmakers or neuro-deniers? A response to Zoe Williams (with Sue Gerhardt)

17 April 2014

Risk-taking, crime and life expectancy

23 March 2014

Protest, political allegiance, stress, fear and brains

02 March 2014

Betting, risk-taking, poverty and stress

26 January 2014

The lost joys of playing and just being

27 December 2013

After the giving and receiving. Materialism and happiness and tough lives

26 November 2013

Antidepressants, Big Pharma, and ordinary unhappiness

12 October 2013

IQ and genes, Cummings, Gove, prejudice, inequality, social conditions and parenting

05 August 2013

Happiness, friends and values bigger than ourselves

21 July 2013

Chris Froome, tour de France, individualism and cooperative groups

30 June 2013

Pinker's Porkies and Views on Human Nature

09 June 2013

Are electronic media leading to jumpy brains?

02 June 2013

Poverty, resilience and hidden stressors

12 May 2013

Psychopaths, brains, childhoods and society

28 April 2013

ADHD, and good and bad attention

12 April 2013

Osborne, Philpot, cuts, fairness and Maggie T

03 April 2013

Mental health downturns, the recession and services

11 March 2013

Invisibilty, and doing the right thing

24 February 2013

cooperating and helping others reduces stress and improves health

17 February 2013

Child care ratios, attachment and emotional health

10 February 2013

The elderly, helping, altruism and health

27 January 2013

10 new research findings that might be of interest from the last week

27 January 2013

Suicides and the recession

20 January 2013

Poverty, speeding up the life course and mental and physical health problems

20 January 2013

10 interesting research findings from the last week

04 January 2013

narcissism and superficality

31 December 2012

New year, holidays and spreading loneliness or happiness

23 December 2012

Just Giving for Christmas

15 December 2012

Longevity, Olympians, high status and inequality

14 December 2012

14/12/12 hand-picked research findings from the last week

09 December 2012

Psychoanlysis' demise is exagerated

09 December 2012

9/12/12 some interesting research findings from the last week

02 December 2012

Poverty and unemployment plays havoc with physical and mental health

24 November 2012

Telomeres, mindfulness, illness, dying young and our impulsive, inattentive world

24 November 2012

24/11/12 ten exciting psychology research findings from this week

18 November 2012

18/11/12 Ten fascinating research findings from this week

18 November 2012

Farewell and thanks to the great Daniel Stern

11 November 2012

11/11/12 Ten top interesting new research finidngs this week

05 November 2012

some of last week's interesting research findings 4/11/12

04 November 2012

Child abandonment, the recession, austerity and our society’s values

28 October 2012

A relationship between political allegiance and how our brains work

28 October 2012

ten new research findings just out

21 October 2012

selfishness, happiness, guilt and political allegiance

21 October 2012

interesting new research findings in the last week

14 October 2012

Jimmy Saville, psychopaths and you and me

14 October 2012

Some interesting new research findings from last week: 14/10/12

11 October 2012

Week beginning 08/10/12

07 October 2012

Povery, parenting and impulsivity

30 September 2012

The risks of the dominance of evidence based practice

24 September 2012

Research on the effect of the recession on mental health

16 September 2012

Empathy, feeling good and healing

09 September 2012

Power, confidence and politics

01 September 2012

Fairness is natural but what fairness?

06 August 2012

The good things that do not happen to children can be worse than the bad things that do

29 July 2012

Psychological damage and physical abuse linked to poverty

22 July 2012

Violent video games and aggression

15 July 2012

Childhood adversity and adult health problems, a costly link

07 July 2012

Barclays, evolution and the neuroscience and psychology of greed

29 June 2012

More on happiness and consumerism

24 June 2012

In praise of confusion and uncertainty

16 June 2012

Psychologically disturbed and manic society

03 June 2012

Our group brains

27 May 2012

The positive in the negative

20 May 2012

The trouble with testosterone: confidence, aggression and dominance

13 May 2012

Stop that emailing .. and watch the screen time generally

07 May 2012

Prejudice as a defence against feeling bad

29 April 2012

Impulsivity in children, worries, causes and later problems

20 April 2012

Do we want to be consumers of services?

13 April 2012

Again, good parenting changes children’s brains and predicts better health later in life

03 April 2012

IQ , breast-feeding and hot housing

18 March 2012

The good in gossip and shaming

05 March 2012

The 'early' in early intervention means during pregnancy: The research that is a killjoy for pregnant mums

03 March 2012

Wealth and power make people less moral

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