Selected Press

The New York Times – Feces-smeared fakes: Scientists use rubber hands in OCD therapy, January 2020. Details.

New Scientist – Illusion involving fake poo and rubber hand tested on people with OCD, January 2020. Details.

University of Cambridge Research News – Contaminating a fake rubber hand could help people overcome OCD, study suggests. January 2020. Details.

NBC News – What your jealous feelings are telling you (and what you should do about them), May 2019. Details.

The Times – Videos on app help patients resist obsessive compulsions, November 2018. Details.

British Psychological Society – New intervention using a phone app may help people with OCD, November 2018. Details.

BBC two (Victoria Derbyshire Live) – Smartphone App for OCD, October 2018. Details.

The Week – Who is the Hat Man? The Nightmare Shared by Dreamers Across the World, October 2018. Details.

The Telegraph – Are You Suffering from Sleep Paralysis? October 2018. Details.

Chicago Tribune – New Hope for Those with OCD Who Scrub Their Hands until They Bleed, October 2018. Details.

The Washington Post – Obsessive-Compulsive disorder: The Simple Videos that Researchers Hope Will Help People who Scrub Their Hands Until They Bleed, October 2018. Details.

University of Cambridge Research News – Brain Training App Helps Reduce OCD Symptoms Study Finds (Researcher Profile: Baland Jalal), October 2018. Details.

PBS (NOVA) – The Nightmare of Sleep Paralysis, August 2018. Details.

Newstalk (Futureproof) – Body Identity Integrity Disorder (radio/podcast interview), March 2018. Details.

New Scientist – Watching Others Wash Their Hands May Relief OCD Symptoms, August 2017. Details

The Pulse (NPR) – Sleep Paralysis: How a Deep-Sleep Glitch Can Conjure the Boogeyman, July 2017. Details.

New York Magazine – A Neuroscientist Tried to Help Me Overcome My Sleep Paralysis, July 2016. (On MR-Therapy for sleep paralysis). Details.

Business Insider – A Researcher May Have Found a Way to Treat Sleep Paralysis, The Terrifying Experience of Waking Up Unable to Move, January 2016. (On MR-Therapy for sleep paralysis). Details.

Discover Magazine – To Study OCD Scientists get Their (Rubber) Hands Dirty, December 2015. (On OCD and the rubber hand illusion). Details. 

The Guardian – Vampires, Ghosts and Demons: The Nightmare of Sleep Paralysis, October 2015. Details.