The Therapy Clinic Brighton

04/08/2023

How getting curious improves your mental sharpness and health

Shifting from a high-pressure mindset to a curious one improves people's memory, finds new research. Study participants pre-meditating a robbery in a virtual art museum remembered more paintings than those executing the heist in-the-moment. The new findings may help address many real-world problems....

02/08/2023

Do you find yourself worrying about what your therapist thinks of you?

Clinicians reveal how they actually feel after a patient leaves a session.

31/07/2023

The unlikely advantages of worrying

Negative mental chatter and anxious fantasies may not be all bad – they could bring benefits such as greater creativity and better health

24/07/2023

Things to consider before you give your child a smartphone.

When's the right time to start your child with a phone? Is 12 too young? Here's what a professional screen time consultant tells parents about the risks kids face online.

21/07/2023

What is ADepT and how could it be more effective than CBT?

A new talking therapy for depression has shown encouraging early signs of being more effective and cheaper to deliver than the current best practice of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). A pilot trial has found Augmented Depression Therapy (ADepT) could be a significant advance in depression care.

19/07/2023

What are the most common topics women bring up in ?

Mental health professionals reveal the topics that are often talked about in their sessions and what you can do if you're feeling them, too.

17/07/2023

Highlighting the importance of sleep for mental resilience.

Research has shown quality sleep can help bolster resilience to depression and anxiety.

07/07/2023

What's AI-nxiety? 🤖

You probably already use AI in your life - take time to think about how these tools help you.

05/07/2023

A fresh take on sobriety

At first it was uncomfortable and foreign, like asking for directions overseas. But now I feel at home when socialising sober

03/07/2023

"Inactivity in the rostro-medial prefrontal cortex during rejection may explain why those with BPD are more sensitive and more distressed by rejection."

A new study of a brain region called the rostro-medial prefrontal could potentially advance diagnosis and therapies for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).

30/06/2023

Children who begin reading for pleasure early in life tend to perform better at cognitive tests and have better mental health when they enter adolescence, a study of more than 10,000 young adolescents in the U.S. has found.

29/06/2023

Biomarker for OCD may guide new therapies

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have used powerful new brain imaging techniques to reveal a neurochemical imbalance within regions of the frontal lobes in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The research findings are published in the journal Nature Communications.

28/06/2023

As Pride Month draws to a close, we want to say thank you to our LGBTQIA+ clients for trusting us to work with and support them.

We support diversity.

Our therapists are a diverse group and have experience in working with clients from different backgrounds including those from vulnerable or marginalised groups. We have therapists with expertise in working with black and minority ethnic clients, LGBTQIA+ clients and clients with issues relating to gender or sexuality.

21/06/2023

"Untreated cognitive problems have a significant impact on the quality of life of people with . This study adds to the growing evidence base that drugs affecting the 5-HT4 serotonin receptor hold promise as a novel way to treat depression and cognitive impairment."

Cognitive deficits accompany mood disorders and other psychiatric conditions, often with debilitating effects. Limited treatments currently exist, but studies in animals and humans have pointed to drugs such as the laxative prucalopride that activate serotonin receptors as a potential therapeutic fo...

20/06/2023

Inside chronic pain

What started as an ache in my arms got so bad I had to stop driving and could barely work. Three years on, I am one of 3 million people in the UK living with pain that never goes away

15/06/2023

The struggle seldom talked about...

I never defined what I experienced as traumatic, and I never once thought of myself as a victim or a survivor, until I became a parent

13/06/2023

What is anti-dopamine parenting?

Dopamine is a part of our brain's survival mechanism. It is also part of why sugary foods and social media hook kids. The latest neuroscience can help parents help their kids manage behavior.

09/06/2023

New study is promising progress toward precision medication for bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a major psychiatric condition that afflicts about 1% of people. Symptoms of BD include sudden onset of depressive mood with loss of interest which alternates with a manic state of hyperactivity. The suffering of the patients and societal cost of this disorder requires the us...