Editor ’ s Message and May –June 2016 Issue Highlights

Dear Colleagues: Welcome to the May–June 2016 issue of Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience. I am pleased to start the issue with the first of a series of articles we’ll be publishing that will explore the emerging field of digital medicine and how innovative technology can improve patient outcomes in the field of neuroscience. I am honored to coauthor the series with Drs. Arshya Vahabzadeh and Ned Sahin from BrainPower, a company that develops brain science-driven software for wearables (e.g., Google Glass™) into neuro-assistive devices for the educational challenges of autism. In our first installment, titled “Digital Suicide Prevention: Can Technology Become a Game-changer?” we discuss how the rapid advancements in data science, such as machine learning, can provide us with useful tools for suicide prevention, for example via smartphone applications and wearable sensor-driven systems. We’ll also discuss future opportunities for digital suicide prevention, including our novel Sensor-driven Mental State Assessment System. We hope you enjoy the series and that it inspires you to explore and develop your own innovative ideas for better patient outcomes in neuroscience. Next, Mulcahy et al share and discuss the results of their study “Physician Prescribing Practices of Vitamin D in a Psychiatric Hospital” in which the authors investigated the vitamin D prescribing habits of physicians among psychiatric inpatients at an urban hospital. Because many of the hypothe...
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