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Breaking down barriers in the workplace

Breaking down barriers in the workplace

Posted on 10 October 2017 by Alison Tobin

The theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day is mental health in the workplace. A recent report by MIND found that 32% of men attributed work as the cause […]

Emancipating ourselves from emotional repression at work

Emancipating ourselves from emotional repression at work

Posted on 9 October 2017 by Professor Dirk Lindebaum

How to use reappraisals, and express anger (constructively) instead of 'managing' it - by Dirk Lindebaum. This article first appeared on the LSE Business Review Are your emotions always yours? […]

MINDDS – a pan-European network for Neurodevelopmental Disorder research

MINDDS – a pan-European network for Neurodevelopmental Disorder research

Posted on 9 October 2017 by Professor Adrian Harwood

When we talk about ‘neurodevelopmental disorders’ (NDD), we refer to a wide range of mental health conditions united by an overlapping biology that arises from disrupted brain development.  It is […]

#MHNR2017

#MHNR2017

Posted on 27 September 2017 by Ben Hannigan

Cardiff welcomed delegates to the 23rd International Mental Health Nursing Research Conference (#MHNR2017), which took place at City Hall on September 14th and 15th 2017. This was the conference’s first […]

Shedding light on epilepsy in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome

Shedding light on epilepsy in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome

Posted on 30 August 2017 by Christopher Eaton

Imagine being the parent of a child with a rare genetic disorder that affects heart, mind and brain. Then imagine that this ‘rare’ disorder in fact effects up to fifteen […]

Increase understanding of autism and stop wrongly blaming parents

Increase understanding of autism and stop wrongly blaming parents

Posted on 11 August 2017 by Professor Susan Leekam

Sue Leekam and Catherine R.G. Jones As many as 1.1% of the population of the UK has autism spectrum disorder (ASD), making it a relatively common condition. Yet ASD can […]

Could data science revolutionise mental health care?

Could data science revolutionise mental health care?

Posted on 2 August 2017 by Kathryn Excell

One in four people are affected by mental illness each year, with often devastating impacts on their lives. And whilst mental illness is gaining increasing attention in the media and […]

My Cardiff diary

My Cardiff diary

Posted on 24 July 2017 by Dr Niran Okewole

Why was I in Cardiff? Eighteen years ago, while still in medical school, a Cameroonian geneticist took a few of us in our Genetics club (which I had joined out […]

Why mindfulness matters in medical education

Why mindfulness matters in medical education

Posted on 18 July 2017 by Dr Craig Hassed

This post is based on a paper that appears in the second issue of The British Student Doctor Journal, an imprint of Cardiff University Press. There are many challenges associated […]

Masculinity: A blessing and a burden?

Masculinity: A blessing and a burden?

Posted on 7 July 2017 by Robert Searle

It is often our personal experiences which influence our academic trajectory. Throughout my life to date, I have been told that I need to demonstrate certain behaviours, simply because I […]