Today, Tuesday 10th October is #WorldMentalHealthDay,
The theme of #WorldMentalHealthDay is Mental health in the workplace. According to the World Health Organisation, hundreds of millions of people globally are living with depression and/or anxiety disorder.
According to The Independent, anxiety and depression in UK workers is up a third in four years, informed by research done by the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)
There are lots of research projects happening to help develop understanding of how our brains work, what affects our mental health and how we can stay physically as well as mentally healthy. The Wellcome Trust highlights 6 projects they fund to enhance mental health.
You can see the research happening here at Birkbeck, in the Psychological Sciences around brain and cognitive development, cognitive modelling, perception, attention and emotion and child, family and health psychology.
So do remember to take of your health and that, here at Birkbeck, the counselling and wellbeing team in Student Services are here to help. The bibliotherapy resources listed can be found in the Library so please do take a look and make use of them as and when you need to, as well as the other services available.
It's an exciting time as the Nobel Prizes are announced for 2017, here's a summary of those awarded in the Sciences.
The Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2017
This was awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution"
For an overview of the topic, it's worth having a read of ACS article Breaking the Crystal Ceiling: Cryo-electron microscopy goes high resolution.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017
This was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves".
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 was awarded jointly to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm".
If you're inspired by these scientists and want to find more examples of their work, you can do an author search using a database like Scopus, as shown in this short screencast - do an author search in Scopus.
From this search, you can see how many articles this author has published, who they have worked with, where they have published. You can also set up alerts to be notified when this author publishes a new article. Fancy.
Who knows, one day you might be receiving the Nobel Prize for Chemistry one day!
