Jessica J Steventon

Jessica Steventon is a neuroscientist at Cardiff University and a British Science Association Media Fellow at openDemocracy. She has a keen interest in mental health, dementia and science communication. Follow her on Twitter: @JessSteventon

Egg freezing: a misplaced solution to society’s failure of women?

Egg freezing is marketed as a choice-enhancing tool to empower women. With motherhood increasingly devalued socially, is this technology an opportunistic shift of society’s failings onto women?

By Jessica J Steventon

/ 12 Sep 2016

Is statistics the prize weapon in the Zika arms race?

International political wrangling is stymieing progress in fighting Zika at the cost of a swelling number of infected pregnant women. With no vaccine or medicine to treat the virus, do statisticians hold the answer?

By Jessica J Steventon

/ 8 Sep 2016

Sweet poison: why our brains need a sugar tax

Sugar may not just be harming your waistline, but also your brain.

By Jessica J Steventon

/ 26 Aug 2016

‘Less than human’: does asylum system harm child refugees’ mental health?

The UK government has agreed to accept an unspecified number of unaccompanied child asylum seekers. With escalating anti-immigration rhetoric, will inadequate mental health provisions exacerbate trauma?

By Jessica J Steventon

/ 26 Aug 2016

Radical thinking: can violent extremism be prevented by addressing mental health?

Against a backdrop of increasingly frequent violent extremism, we must explore the possibility of avoiding future atrocities by addressing the mental health needs of would-be terrorists.

By Jessica J Steventon

/ 10 Aug 2016