Andjelka Stones is a graduate in Psychological Sciences from the University of Westminster and studied the subject of the psychophysiology of panic attacks to attain her PhD. She has organised several international conferences on panic attacks and published in the area in collaboration with David Perry, with whom she led a session on panic attacks at Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid at the Dana Centre in November 2007. She has also had research interests in the psychological aspects of in vitro fertilisation and has provided counselling, including online support, for anxiety sufferers.