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Dancing for joy

Dancing is a mood enhancer, it increases social bonding and it improves creativity. Maybe you really can dance all your troubles away.

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Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis

Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.

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Is it really OK to not be OK?

Our mental healthcare system is still the poor relation of services that treat physical illness, and the pandemic has shone a spotlight on this situation. Campaigner James Downs argues for fundamental change.

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Winter blues and the story of SAD

In ‘Chasing the Sun‘ Linda Geddes reveals why for some people, winter is literally depressing, showing how we first came to recognise seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

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  • Principles of general and comparative physiology : intended as an introduction to the study of human physiology ... / by William B. Carpenter.
  • The structure and physiology of fishes explained and compared with those of man and other animals / [Alexander Monro].
  • The structure and physiology of fishes explained and compared with those of man and other animals / [Alexander Monro].
  • The structure and physiology of fishes explained and compared with those of man and other animals / [Alexander Monro].
  • The structure and physiology of fishes explained and compared with those of man and other animals / [Alexander Monro].
  • The structure and physiology of fishes explained and compared with those of man and other animals / [Alexander Monro].
  • The structure and physiology of fishes explained and compared with those of man and other animals / [Alexander Monro].
  • Philosophie zoologique. Ou Exposition : des considérations relative à l'histoire naturelle des animaux / par J.- B.- P.- A. Lamarck.
  • The head of a frog, in the fourth stage of a physiognomic metamorphosis into an ideal head of Apollo. Coloured drawing by J.C. Lavater, 179-.
  • The head of a frog, in the early stages of a physiognomic metamorphosis into an ideal head of Apollo. Coloured drawing by J.C. Lavater, 179-.
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