How Long Should You Take Antidepressants?

11 December 2025 at 05:01

Clinical guidelines are vague, so we asked psychiatrists what to consider when deciding whether to continue taking these medications.

Questions we should actually be asking in UK citizenship test | Letters

The Guardian

By:Guardian Staff

9 December 2025 at 11:44

Anne Johns, who volunteers with refugees, says she regularly witnesses highly skilled and qualified people failing the test on idiotic questions

Oh, how I agree with Emma Beddington (Forget Hadrian’s Wall. The UK citizenship test should ask about Corrie, bus queues and Greggs, 7 December). I volunteer with refugees and regularly witness the distress of highly skilled and qualified people failing the test on idiotic questions that most Britons couldn’t answer. When simple facts can be found by a quick internet search, what is the point of wasting brain space by trying to memorise them?

Much more salient to ask questions like: where can you legally ride an electric scooter? The maximum legal speed for an electric bicycle? The documents needed to drive a car legally in the UK? What is the living wage? How do you obtain a library card? How do you know when it’s safe to cross a road at lights? What is a food bank? Which political party is currently in power in England?

Nolan Williams, Who Stimulated the Brain to Treat Depression, Dies at 43

NYT: Science

By:Richard Sandomir

11 November 2025 at 14:35

A neuroscientist, he employed a battery of high-tech tools in devising a fast-acting therapy that targets the area of the brain where depression originates.

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