A third of adult cases of advanced kidney disease (stage 4 or 5 chronic kidney disease [CKD]) is attributable to overweight or obesity; intentional weight loss can delay CKD progression up to stage 4.

Dr Laura Dean has become the President of the British Psychological Society and begins her two-year tenure following the Society's annual general meeting held this week (9 September).

Thanking Dr Raczka for his tenure, BPS Chief Executive Sarb Bajwa said: "All of us at the BPS are enormously grateful to Roman for his hard work and diligence as President over the last two years.

The new Class Unit aims to improve the lives of low-income families, disadvantaged communities and tackle child poverty.

New guidance on NHS registration requirements for use of psychological professions titles has been published this week.

The award-winning books were written by authors from a range of professional backgrounds including academia, practising psychologists, research and publishing. Many of them include the voices of ...

Furthermore, the link between gratitude and health behaviours is replicated across diverse population groups, the research from the British Psychological Society's (BPS) journal British Journal of ...

"We have a mental health crisis and a lot of focus on benefits for mental health issues. We need to tackle the issues behind that: schools forced to become exam factories; inequality; insecurity; and ...

The government's SEND reform proposals are at risk if the shortage of Educational Psychologists (EPs) isn't urgently tackled, according to new research commissioned by the BPS. The new report ...

Autobiographical memory — our ability to recall and organise personal experiences — plays a central role in our sense of who we are over time. When it's disrupted, as in dissociative disorders, people ...

Flow state is typically described as the feeling of time falling away as we become completely absorbed in an activity. For autistic people, this kind of deep immersion ("autistic flow") can be ...

The British Psychological Society has been working with members to explore psychology's role in the future of the NHS. Three workshops for members were held recently to discuss the three main shifts ...