As anyone who has worked with children with behavioural issues such as ADHD will know, specific foods, colourings, food additives, pollens and chemicals can all trigger hyperactive reactions in sensitive children. When not exposed to their triggers these children remain calm and …
Mental Health
Slow watching
Want to take some time out? Slow your heart rate? Forget the irritations of the morning? Move to a different space? If so you need to log into Linda Olofsson and Anders Lundin's Great Moose Walk. This has been According to Google translate this was aired on Swedish TV in 2019 …
Being around trees helps with depression
Although studies abound suggesting that green surroundings are good for both our mental and physical health most are based on some sort of self reporting so a recent study from Leipzig which used the frequency of anti depressant prescriptions as a metric is interesting. Of course …
FAB Research – blindness in pre term babies
I have long been an admirer of the work of Dr Alex Richardson and her FAB Research (Food and Behaviour Research) team. Following in the footsteps of Dr Michael Crawford who, in the early 1970s, first highlighted the importance of dietary fats in the development of the brain, …
Screen addiction
Over at Curlew Books Sally has started work with Dr Mark Griffiths, an expert on behavioural addictions, on a book on screen addiction, with particular reference to on-screen gambling. As a result I am currently attuned to research on addiction. So, although I was actually …