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Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.

I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.

My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

Man is a competitive creature, and the seeds of conflict are built deep into our genes. We fought each other on the savannah and only survived against great odds by organising ourselves into groups which would have had a common purpose, giving morale and fortitude.

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent.

By discovering how our minds work, we can improve our learning power and unlock our true potential.

A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

Having a child is arguably the most important thing you do in life.

There needs to be clearer communication for the public avout how valuable it [animal testing] is

You can't be judgmental about babies. They are all have different needs. I was left with an enduring hatred of cheese because it was forced down me when I was young.