Category: An Inquiring Mind

July is disability pride month and Ginny Smith has a difficult relationship with the word disability.

Why are we driven to eat more when we are stressed? Ginny Smith investigates

A better understanding of sleep and circadian rhythms might lie with an unusual source.

You might be surprised to know that even though they are the drugs most commonly prescribed for depression, scientists don’t know exactly how SSRIs, or Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, work to help people feel better.

Ginny Smith looks at the role of dopamine in motivation.

Ever found yourself mid-conversation with a colleague who’s telling a long and boring story and realised you haven’t got a clue what they have been saying for the last few minutes?

Ginny Smith argues that some recent writings around Long Covid might be more dangerous than they are helpful.

Ginny Smith’s hair has started to fall out. Reason for panic or entirely normal?

While we all question whether wearing masks protects us against COVID-19, Ginny Smith is interested in how the act of wearing them changes our very behaviour.

In Part 2 of Ginny Smith’s self experiment she works out how to best use light to combat the effects the jetlag.

Ginny Smith has just this week moved to Singapore. So naturally she’s conducting jet lag experiments on herself.

A tweet from Hannah Fry got Ginny Smith thinking, why are kids so shit at hide and seek?