We all know we should be spending more time being physically active. You don’t really have a chance to forget between billboards, TV adverts and magazine covers promising the latest way to get your summer body ready and fast!

1 in 5 adults are affected by depression. But why? Are we a generation of inherently sad individuals, or are our lifestyle choices dictating our moods? This article examines 10 of the reasons why you might be feeling depressed...

I'm a 4th year medical student at Cardiff University. I'm currently taking time out from my course after being diagnosed with OCD. In the third and fourth years of our medical degrees, we get a chance to do something outside the course. I didn’t want to be stuck in a lab or reading hundreds of research studies. So I thought of a way to combine my passions of psychiatry and filmmaking into an end of year project.

"Boys are at least two times more likely than girls to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs)” says Dr William Davies, Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University's MRC Centre. But why?

Low mood and anxiety are something we all experience at various points in our lives. And the enormous changes that occur on becoming a new parent means it is a time when these symptoms are particularly common. Dealing with these issues is an important part of caring for new mothers and mothers-to-be. But we need to be wary of turning normal human emotions and experiences into medical diagnoses.

In the run up to University Mental Health Day the Wales Student Psychiatry Society teamed up with NCMH to open a competition asking students to get inspired by mental health and create a piece of original artwork.