The MindFields College Blog

The MindFields College office is situated in a rural area of East Sussex.
While this makes the journey to work slightly more taxing than if we were in a city centre (e.g. getting stuck behind a slow moving tractor and only one train an hour at the local train station), it’s also lovely to be able […]

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Anyone who worries unconstructively is in danger of clinical depression. Depression is not selective - to take recent examples from the media: the famous, single mothers, politicians, men, women are all susceptible to depression.
When you worry incessantly about something which can’t be immediately solved or is circular, you generate unresolved emotional arousal. Once an […]

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In last Thursday’s post we introduced how addiction occurs when natural pleasure response processes get out of control. [Sorry I’ve not had a chance to post the follow up until now - it’s been a busy few days!]
It is clear that intellectually, you can tell yourself shouldn’t be doing something bad for you as […]

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For the third consecutive year, Brighton and Hove has had the most drug related deaths anywhere in the UK.
24.2 per 100,000 people died from drug related deaths in the city (that’s 51 people in a single year period), compared with the second worst area, Dumbarton, which had only 13.4 per 100,000 people.
Living in the city […]

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Juvenile hamsters on low doses of Prozac are more aggressive than adult hamsters.
In a study worth reading by Tavarosh-Lahn, Bastida and Deville at the University of Texas - it was noticed that rates of aggression in male golden hamsters decreased naturally throughout the juvenile stage of their development. Hamsters are often used in studies […]

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It would be so helpful if everyone who comes across this blog also answered our emotional needs audit survey at www.enaproject.org, particularly if you live in the UK (although anyone, anywhere can do it!). The survey is short, confidential (no name and address needed) and consists of rating how well you feel all your different […]

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Following on from the previous drink related post - I happened to see this sobering (haha) report in a magazine about the neurology behind teenage drinking.
Alcohol misuse in teenage years has been shown to affect the neural circuitry of the hippocampus which deals with complex behaviour such as goal setting, decision making and self control.
Young […]

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