How design is helping people with dementia find their way around

For people with Alzheimer’s and other degenerative diseases, just navigating around the house can be difficult and disorientating. But some pioneering approaches are offering new solutions

Life-saving optimism: what the west can learn from Africa

In the US, where I teach, mental health problems are rife. In Nigeria, poverty is common but there’s no hopelessness. Why, asks author and academic Chigozie Obioma

Student mental health must be top priority – universities minister

Sam Gyimah says issue requires serious leadership from vice-chancellors

Forty years since Fat Is A Feminist Issue

Susie Orbach never imagined her classic book would still be so relevant decades later

How to support friends through their mental health struggles

If someone you know is finding the going tough, here’s what you can do to help them

Inequality breeds stress and anxiety. No wonder so many Britons are suffering

In equal societies, citizens trust each other and contribute to their community. This goes into reverse in countries like ours, say Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, the authors of The Inner Level

Suffering from Brexit anxiety? You could get free counselling

Psychotherapists will offer sessions to those left in despair by referendum result

Work stress raises risk of premature death in vulnerable men – study

Men with diabetes or heart disease facing ‘job strain’ have 68% higher risk of early death

Simon Cowell says giving up mobile phone has made him happier

Not using phone is ‘a strange experience but really is good for you’, music producer says

Bristol University faces growing anger after student suicides

Backdrop to exam season is mounting concern about student mental health