Curated Video
Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night: Great Art Explained
Vincent van Gogh was a largely self-taught artist who didn’t pick up a paintbrush until he was 30 years old. Just seven years later, he would be dead. It was really his last four years where he developed the style we would come to know...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Christine B. Cha - Suicide and Self-Injury
Christine B. Cha, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Counseling & Clinical Psychology Department, Teachers College, Columbia University. She applies principles from social and cognitive psychology to answer questions about suicide...
Healthcare Triage
Teen Suicide Rates Are Rising, but Prevention is Possible
Rates of teen suicide are rising, and rates for girls are higher than any time in the last 40 years. There are a number of ways to address this problem, but why aren't we using evidence based approaches to the problem?
Barcroft Media
The Service Dogs Helping Veterans With PTSD
A CHARITY is giving Post Traumatic Stress Disorder sufferers a new lease of life by pairing them up with service dogs. 1Pet1Vet, based in Kankakee, Illinois is a non-profit organization that specialises in pairing and training companion...
Step Back History
The Satanic Panic and Dungeons & Dragons
For those unaware, I'm a really big fan of Dungeons and Dragons. More people are today than there ever has been. but back in the 1980s, a moral panic tried to equate pastimes like Dungeons and Dragons with evil satanic rituals and abuse.
Oxford Comma
Specificity and Ambiguity: Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
If you're familiar with John Green's debut novel, looking for Alaska, then you know the reference to Miles' name (Miles to go before I sleep) comes from a Robert Frost poem. But, did you know that diving into this poem revels just how...
Cerebellum
Understanding Macbeth: The Culmination Of Macbeth's Actions
Macbeth tells the story of a good man gone bad, driven to murder by ugly ambition and fueled by a power-hungry wife. Lady Macbeth guilty about the Kings murder commits suicide. Macbeth hears of the English army advancing on his castle....
Press Association
Esther Rantzen's daughter Rebecca Wilcox speaks about new Assisted Dying Bill
Esther Rantzen's daughter Rebecca Wilcox spoke today in Parliament Square about the proposed Assisted Dying Bill.
The new bill is due to be debated by MPs on November 29. If approved, it would enable terminally ill people to legally...
Press Association
Esther Rantzen's daughter speaks about new Assisted Dying Bill
Esther Rantzen's daughter Rebecca Wilcox spoke today in Parliament Square about the proposed Assisted Dying Bill.
The new bill is due to be debated by MPs on November 29. If approved, it would enable terminally ill people to legally...
Curated Video
Pastor John-Paul Miller released from jail after arrest for assault
Pastor John-Paul Miller was released from jail after an arrest for assault. He was thrust into the public spotlight following the suicide of his estranged wife, Mica Miller. (Scripps News)
Curated Video
Winter blues: Two in five Americans report mood decline during colder months
A recent poll from the American Psychiatric Association found that 41% of Americans reported sleeping more in the winter, 28% said they experienced increased fatigue, and 27% said they felt depressed. (Scripps News)
Press Association
Assisted dying: Son whose mother died alone on bathroom floor calls for change - full interview
Interview with George Smith - whose mother Maureen, died alone on her bathroom floor having taken her own life as she faced “excruciating pain” from a nerve condition - has described legalising assisted dying as a “huge opportunity for...
Press Association
Assisted dying: My mother was denied a peaceful death surrounded by loved ones - George Smith
Interview with George Smith whose mother Maureen suffered with chronic pain and took her own life. He said the 80-year-old had been denied the opportunity to have a peaceful death surrounded by loved ones, due to the law as it...
Press Association
Assisted dying: Cutaway shots of son whose mother died alone on bathroom floor
Cutaway shots of George Smith, whose mother Maureen died alone on her bathroom floor having taken her own life as she faced “excruciating pain” from a nerve condition. He described legalising assisted dying as a “huge opportunity for the...
Press Association
Assisted dying: Son whose mother died alone on bathroom floor calls for change
The son of a woman who died alone on her bathroom floor having taken her own life as she faced “excruciating pain” from a nerve condition has described legalising assisted dying as a “huge opportunity for the country” which he said is...
Press Association
Kim Leadbeater holds photocall ahead of introducing private members' bill on assisted dying
Labour MP for Spen Valley Kim Leadbeater speaks on Parliament Square ahead of introducing a private members’ bill (PMB) on assisted dying after topping a ballot, which gives her priority on a Friday sitting.
Curated Video
First on Scripps News: VA awarding $52M in grants to prevent military suicides
Veterans are dying by suicide at an alarming rate — one death every 85 minutes. (Scripps News)
Curated Video
CDC study shares how community can impact suicide risks
Suicide risk may depend on certain community-level factors such as health insurance, internet access and income, according to a new CDC Vital Signs report. (Scripps News)
Curated Video
Construction workers die by suicide more than the general population
Male construction workers are committing suicide at a rate that's 75% higher than the general population. It's a number that keeps climbing. (Scripps News)
Press Association
CALM has unveiled a powerful new installation for Suicide Prevention Day
Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) has unveiled a powerful new installation of thousands of birthday balloons - each one representing the age a real young person never did not reach due to them taking their own life
Includes...
Press Association
Charity Calm unveil powerful new installation for Suicide Prevention Day
Suicide prevention charity Campaign Against Living Miserably (Calm) unveils an installation of birthday balloons at London's Westfield shopping centre, each representing the age a young person never reached due to them taking their own...
Press Association
Labour to end use of Bibby Stockholm asylum accommodation barge
The Government will end the use of the Bibby Stockholm barge for housing migrants off England’s south coast as part of an overhaul of the asylum system, the Home Office has announced.
Press Association
Parliament should be informed in the event of a sustained military operation, says Sir Keir Starmer
Parliament should be informed in the event of a sustained military operation, says Sir Keir Starmer after his address at the Jewish Labour Movement conference
Press Association
Lib Dems set to fire starting gun of election campaign to ‘smash blue wall’
Interview with MP Daisy Cooper - Deputy Liberal Democrat Leader ahead of the LibDem conference on Saturday