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Answering your questions about mental health

Meet our new columnist Kyle MacDonald, lifting the lid on your mental health queries and concerns.

Can this app detect autism in toddlers?

Scientists grow brains in lab that think on their own

Verity Johnson: Why I hated going to Granny's

As a teen, I couldn't have explained why, because I've only just figured it out, writes Verity Johnson.

Study shows we're smarter in summer

It seems our minds are geared to be able to pay more attention when the days are long.

Brain 'hack' chance to beat jet lag

Jet lag can be prevented by "hacking" into the body's circadian rhythm during sleep using a flashing alarm clock, Stanford University has discovered.

Deborah Hill Cone: The soothing illusion of delusion

They are many and they are powerful - we all use defence mechanisms, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

How novelist baked her way out of depression

Best-selling author Marian Keyes tells Jennifer Dann why she hates the term chick-lit and how she baked herself out of depression

Pregnancy anti-depressants: Autism risk

Strongest evidence yet that using an antidepressant during final two trimesters may be linked to a higher risk of autism.

Allowed to die before getting 'poor and ugly'

A judge has allowed a mother of three the right to die because she does not want to become old, poor or ugly.

Personality switch allows blind woman to see

While seeking treatment for her mental disorder the ability to see suddenly returned, not to B.T., a German woman, but to a boy she sometimes became.

Sharpen up: 5 of the best apps to train your brain

A neuroscientist at the University of Birmingham, says we could all benefit from using brain training apps.

Deborah Hill Cone: Pressure of perfection never ends

Deborah Hill Cone crashes her car into a shiny new Audi and has a revelation about her life. My head resting on the steering wheel, I heard a loud inner ding. I realised something important.

Matt Heath: My week pioneering the no food at all diet

To give you an insight into this revolutionary new technique, I recorded diary entries into my phone across a foodless week, writes Matt Heath. Things got a bit hairy at times so please excuse the random nature of the following notes.

Get out of bed! A weekend lie-in 'can raise risk of diabetes'

What doesn't kill you does make you stronger

Research confirms that people should emerge stronger from a stressful event and better able to cope with the trials of everyday life.