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Understanding the disturbed mind

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When it comes to articulating physical pain, we have a myriad of descriptors at our disposal and a universally-understood terminology for bodily ailments.  The same isn’t wholly true for psychological disorders, the complexities of which are matched by the vague and fluid terms ascribed to them.

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Failure: The great unexpected result

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How do you explain failure in a way that doesn’t suggest you don’t know what you’re doing?  It’s a question that preoccupies many scientists, particularly those in the early stages of their career who have as much to prove outside of the lab as they do within it.   

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Memories and the value of narrative truth

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Memories are the defining feature of human identity.  They underlie the decisions that help determine our future, they colour our reflections on the past, and they characterise our life stories.  But our headspace is notoriously fluid, susceptible to damage, change and loss.   The stories that we weave together from what we can recall, while an inimitable gateway into our personalities, are not entirely true.