Skin picking disorder (SPD), also known as excoriation, is a psychiatric condition which has received little attention from clinical researchers. People with SPD cause damage to their skin by picking it but are unable to stop doing so. It has been estimated that over 5% of people in some geographical regions suffer from SPD. Currently, […]
Taste perception in borderline personality disorder and depression.
Mental illness can affect how people subjectively perceive and navigate the outside world. Certain disorders are frequently connected with heightened sensitivity to feeling rejected, criticised, or prone to failure. They may also lead to intense and overwhelming feelings of positive experiences, such as enthusiasm or joy, as well as the same exceptionally strong feelings when […]
Successful SIRS conference for Cambridge PhD students.
Earlier this month, a delegation of Cambridge researchers attended the 5th Biennial Schizophrenia International Research Society conference in Florence, Italy. The conference was attended my more than 1,800 schizophrenia researchers from across the globe and across disciplines as varied as machine learning and epidemiology. The opening plenary was given by Susannah Cahalan, author of the New […]
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