Mental Health Connect

Keen to read more about mental health?

Courtesy of PsychBlog a great list of some of the best international blogs on mental health. Enjoy!

General:

1. MindHacks: links to psychological goodness from all around the web.
2. Cognitive Daily: in-depth coverage of cognitive psychology research.
3. The Last Psychiatrist: thoughtful, iconoclastic perspective from a practising psychiatrist.
4. Channel N: brain and behaviour videos.
5. BPS Research Digest: accessibly covers new psychological research.
6. Encephalon: neuroscience/psychology ‘blog carnival’.
7. Neurophilosophy: about molecules, minds and everything inbetween.
8. Neuromarketing: brain science in marketing and sales.
9. PsychCentral Blog: team blog, focusing more on clinical topics: depression, anxiety etc..
10. The Situationist: links to articles on social psychology.
11. We’re Only Human: journalist Wray Herbert writes about the quirks of human nature.
12. Psychology Today Blogs: ‘essential reads’ from Psychology Today’s stable of bloggers.
13. The Frontal Cortex: by author and journalist Jonah Lehrer.
14. All In The Mind Blog: companion to good Australian radio show covering mind matters.
15. Frontier Psychiatrist: anonymous London-based psychiatrist critical of the profession.
16. Neuronarrative: psychology with a public health slant.
17. Jena Pincott: science of love, sex and attraction.
18. Research Blogging: posts collected from variety of blogs but all peer-reviewed research.
19. In the News: forensic psychologist Karen Franklin on the intersection between psychology and law.
20. The Mouse Trap: musings on cognitive and developmental psychology.
21. The Trouble with Spikol: mental health policy issues discussed by writer Liz Spikol.
22. Bad Science: Covers more than psychology but Dr Ben Goldacre is such good value we’ll let him off.
23. PsyBlog: In case you didn’t notice, the blog you’re reading right now!
    

    More academic:

24. Dr Petra Boynton: sex educator and academic exposes media misrepresentations of science.
25. Babel’s Dawn: exploring the origins of language.
26. The Neurocritic: anonymous, critical, mischievous.
27. Advances in the History of Psychology: it’s all in the title.
28. Deric Bounds’ MindBlog: biological view of the brain from an Emeritus Professor.
29. Brain Stimulant: neurotechnology methods of brain stimulation.
30. Social Psychology Eye: written by contributors to the journal Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
31. Child Psychology Research Blog: by clinical child psychologist, an expert on mood disorders.
    

    Condition specific/patient perspective blogs:

32. Panic!: writer who’s been dealing with panic disorder for 20 years.
33. The Tangled Neuron: layperson reports on memory loss, Alzheimer’s & dementia.
34. Furious Seasons: journalist with bipolar disorder who rattles the cage of Big Pharma.
35. Beyond Blue: author provides guidance on how to get through depression.
36. Walking the Black Dog: one person’s battle with ‘the black dog’.
37. Postpartum Progress: advocate for women, Katherine Stone, on postpartum mental health problems.
38. The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive: Seaneen is a twenty-three year old Irish girl writing about her life.
39. Autism Blog: autism research described by Lisa Jo Rudy, who has first-hand experience of the condition.
40. The Reality of Anxiety: Aimee, who suffers from social anxiety, promoting understanding of the condition.