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Praveetha Patalay
Praveetha Patalay is an exceptional researcher whose work revolves around unravelling the intricacies of population mental health. Patalay completed her PhD at University College London's Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology. Her research harnesses a variety of data sources, delving into the complex realm of mental ill-health over populations and lifetimes. She is now Professor of Population Health and Wellbeing at UCL. Patalay has been a recipient of the British Psychological Society's Award and listed in Forbes’ 30 under 30 for Science and Healthcare. Patalay is situated at the intersection of the MRC Unit of Lifelong Health and Ageing and the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at UCL. In her engaging 2018 TedX talk, she shared her insights on comprehending and classifying mental health.
Praveetha Patalay is an exceptional researcher whose work revolves around unravelling the intricacies of population mental health. Patalay completed her PhD at University College London's Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology. Her research harnesses a variety of data sources, delving into the complex realm of mental ill-health over populations and lifetimes. She is now Professor of Population Health and Wellbeing at UCL. Patalay has been a recipient of the British Psychological Society's Award and listed in Forbes’ 30 under 30 for Science and Healthcare. Patalay is situated at the intersection of the MRC Unit of Lifelong Health and Ageing and the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at UCL. In her engaging 2018 TedX talk, she shared her insights on comprehending and classifying mental health.
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The Physical and Psychological Differences Between Men and Women
The biology and psychology of sex difference
Madness and Wisdom
Might madness be a strange form of wisdom?
The Secret Conjurer
How does the brain play tricks on us?
How Men and Women Think
Are mental differences between the sexes real?
Forgetting to Be Me
Is true memory a fantasy?
Who We Have Been and Who We Are
Is memory a recollection or a construction?
Narrating the Brain
Benjamin Dalton | Neuroscience's story of the self
Why Society Drives You Mad
Environmental psychology & mental illness
Mind, Myth and Madness
Are biological accounts of mental illness useful?
Seeing Through Psychosis
Juliette Burton | Illuminated by mental illness
How to Make the Right Decision
Fixing your biases with cognitive science
Minds, Matter and Mechanisms
Are humans more than machines?
Mechanisms of the Mind
Margaret Boden | Rethinking memory through AI
Mazes of the Mind
The philosophy of neuroscience
Hidden Desires and Secret Thoughts
Are We In Control of Our Selves?
Psychiatry and the Meaning of Pain
A Mad World
Is modern life bad for your mental health?
Against Psychiatric Diagnoses
We need another understanding of mental health | Lucy Johnstone
The Vital Statistics
Should gender differences be accepted?
The Science of Sex
On the real differences between gender and sex
Beyond Psychotherapy
When drugs won’t do
Memory and Forgetting
Forgetfulness and the self
The Science of Psychedelics
David Nutt | Can drugs transform mental health?
Positive Thinking and the Name Game
Should we not name illnesses?
Mind, Madness, and Power
Is psychiatry dangerous?
Where Is My Mind?
It's not all in the brain
Neuro-Everything?
Love Is the Drug
Can we have a pill that sparks love?
Metaphors of the Mind
Ophelia Deroy uncovers the origins of experience.
Drugged Up
Fads and Fallacies in Psychiatry
Treating Psychosis
The limits of anti-psychotics
Memory and the Self
Do memories make us who we are?
Dark Matter of The Mind
Why human nature is not pre-determined
Madness, Incorporated
Are psychiatric diagnoses real?
Sex, Lies and Pharmacology
David Healy | Psychiatric drugs destroy sex lives
Neuroscience and the Mystery of Music
Raymond Tallis explains why our love for music remains beyond science's grasp
Madness: What's in a word?
The language behind it
Are We All Bipolar Now?
The boundaries of mental health
Taking Over the Asylum
A Checklist for Sanity
The limits to our understanding of mental illness
Sexuality After Genetics
Nature's Hidden Persuaders
The evolution of the placebo effect
Manufacturing Love
How to make romance last
How to Be Brave
In an age of anxiety, revisit the most resilient virtue.
Creating Change
The future of arts provision in mental healthcare.
The Rise and Fall of Sex
Is biological sex an illusion?
Mental health reimagined
Why we should value the awful
Against Psychiatry
Prevention and treatment
Beyond Mad or Bad
Mental health, social constructs and community
The mindful body with Ellen Langer
How we misunderstand mindfullness