Something has changed. Here’s why.

A note to everyone who has been reading, sharing, and showing up

If you’ve landed on this page and something looks different, you’re not imagining it.

The Mental Health Program is now Grey Matters. Same writers. Same curiosity. But a name that finally fits what this publication has always been trying to do.

I want to tell you why.

Where this started

I started this newsletter because I thought mental health was misunderstood. Not clinically - there are excellent clinicians for that - but scientifically. The gap between what researchers actually know about the brain and what the rest of the world believes felt enormous to me, and it still does.

So I started writing. School visits. A podcast. Collaborations with other Cambridge researchers who felt the same pull toward making the science legible to people who hadn’t spent years inside a lab.

But something kept happening. The questions I found most compelling kept…