Accelerating Science to Advance Early Interventions for Schizophrenia
In this message, Dr. Gordon highlights a new public-private partnership that aims to develop novel treatment approaches that will make a meaningful difference in the lives of individuals at risk of schizophrenia. (Source: NIMH Directors Blog)
Source: NIMH Directors Blog - May 1, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Joshua Gordon Source Type: blogs
Piecing Together the Genetic Puzzle of Schizophrenia
In this Director ’ s Message, Dr. Gordon highlights new findings that advance our understanding of how genetic differences contribute to the development of schizophrenia. (Source: NIMH Directors Blog)
Source: NIMH Directors Blog - May 1, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Joshua Gordon Source Type: blogs
Could COVID-19 infection be responsible for your depressed mood or anxiety?
Doctors told you that your COVID-19 virus infection cleared months ago. However, even though you no longer struggle to breathe, and your oxygen levels have returned to normal, something doesn’t feel right. In addition to constant headaches, you find yourself struggling with seemingly easy tasks. The fatigue you experience makes moving from the bed to the kitchen feel like an accomplishment. But most troubling for you is a feeling of dread, a nervousness so severe you can feel your heart pounding. Constant worries now keep you from sleeping at night.
What are the mental health effects of COVID-19?
We are still learning ab...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephanie Collier, MD, MPH Tags: Behavioral Health Coronavirus and COVID-19 Mental Health Prevention Stress Source Type: blogs
Black peer support: A role in mental health recovery
It’s been a troubling year for millions of Americans, marked by public reckonings over inequities in justice, health care, and most certainly mental health care. None of these inequities are new. Estimates suggest that only 22% of Black Americans — fewer than one in four — who need mental health care actually receive treatment. In addition to financial and insurance barriers to mental health treatment, a long history of discrimination in medicine makes it difficult for some people of color to form trusting relationships with medical providers. And that’s one reason why peer support has been gaining traction to help...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 8, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Valeria Chambers, EdM, CAS, CPS Tags: Anxiety and Depression Health Health care disparities Mental Health Relationships Source Type: blogs
From digital therapeutics to personalized mental health solutions: Pear Therapeutics expands platform via partnerships with Empatica, etectRx, KeyWise, and Winterlight
Pear Therapeutics Expands Platform with Digital Biomarkers, Machine Learning Algorithms and Sensor-Based Technologies (press release):
Pear Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that it has entered into agreements with multiple technology companies, including Empatica Inc., etectRx, Inc., and KeyWise, Inc. The new technologies complement the voice-based biomarkers previously licensed from Winterlight Labs. These new agreements bolster Pear’s Prescription Digital Therapeutics (PDT) platform, by adding to its library of digital biomarkers, machine learning algorithms, sensor-based technologies, and digital therapeutics.
The n...
Source: SharpBrains - April 7, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation digital biomarkers digital therapeutics Empatica etectRx KeyWise Pear Therapeutics WinterLight Labs Source Type: blogs
The 2 Most Disabling Mental Health Conditions (M)
The study compared 18 different mental health problems and substance use disorders.
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Activate: How To Find Joy Again By Changing What You Do (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 24, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Personality Schizophrenia subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
The Mental Health Condition That Triples COVID Death Risk (M)
How mental health problems affect COVID vulnerability.
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Activate: How To Find Joy Again By Changing What You Do (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 5, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: COVID19 Schizophrenia subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
A Drug That Relieves Schizophrenia Symptoms
Schizophrenia is one of the most serious types of mental illness.
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Activate: How To Find Joy Again By Changing What You Do (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - January 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Schizophrenia Source Type: blogs
Schizophrenia: They are on an island of their own
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 18, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/debbie-moore-black" rel="tag" > Debbie Moore-Black, RN < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Inside Schizophrenia: Evolution of Schizophrenia Treatments
Schizophrenia has been around since the dawn of time but actually treating it has only been around the past 100 years. In this episode host and schizophrenic Rachel Star Withers takes you through the dark and disturbing evolution of schizophrenia treatments. From systematic euthanasia to hydrotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy to the infamous lobotomy.
Were these doctors “mad scientists” torturing the mentally ill or were they the only ones trying to help a population of people seen as a burden?
About our Guest
Miriam Posner is an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Information. She holds a Ph.D. in Film ...
Source: World of Psychology - December 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel Star Withers Tags: Brain and Behavior General History of Psychology Inside Schizophrenia Mental Health and Wellness Psychiatry Psychotherapy Brain Disorders ECT Electric shock Electroconvulsive Therapy Frontal Lobotomies History Of Mental Illness H Source Type: blogs
Click Therapeutics raises $30 million in debt to advance commercialization of smoking cessation app Clickotine
Click Therapeutics Secures $30M in Growth Capital from K2 HealthVentures to Expand Operations (press release):
Click Therapeutics, Inc. (“Click”), a leader in Digital Therapeutics solutions as prescription medical treatments, today announced $30 million in debt financing from K2 HealthVentures (K2HV), a healthcare-focused specialty finance company, to accelerate commercialization of its leading smoking cessation solution, Clickotine, and to advance its pipeline of clinically-validated digital therapeutics…
Click Therapeutics has recently announced the achievement of key corporate milestones, including securing signif...
Source: SharpBrains - December 4, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation Click Therapeutics Clickotine digital therapeutics K2 HealthVentures medical treatments neurotechnologies non-invasive neurotechnologies prescription Source Type: blogs
A brain fitness graduate comes home
A couple of weeks ago, Jerry Emmons shared his story with Posit Science. It seems that the 84-year-old was spending much of each day re-living old, painful World War II memories. He had been the only survivor in his crew and the horror was haunting him more and more. “Post-traumatic stress disorder,” said his doctor. And it was getting worse.
PTSD was just one of Jerry’s cognitive challenges. He was losing control: getting lost while driving and walking, feeling afraid of going out, having difficulty remembering everyday things that were crucial to his welfare, and causing his wife Marline no end of wor...
Source: On the Brain by Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. - December 1, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Merzenich Tags: Aging and the Brain Alzheimer’s Brain Fitness Brain Trauma, Injury BrainHQ Cognitive impairments Posit Science Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, et alia Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Is Telehealth Effective?
In today’s COVID world, many mental health patients are finding themselves “forced” into seeing their doctors online rather than in person. But how effective is telehealth? What are the benefits and disadvantages?
Today’s guest is psychiatrist Dr. Frank Chen, who thoroughly explains the whole new world of telemedicine and why it doesn’t have to be scary. In fact, many patients, including Gabe, have found it to be quite convenient!
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Guest information for ‘Frank Chen- Telehealth’ Podcast Episode
Dr. Frank Chen is a practicing psychiatrist in Houston, Texas, who also speci...
Source: World of Psychology - November 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: General Interview Mental Health and Wellness Podcast Psychiatry The Psych Central Show Treatment Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Birthdays, COVID, and Reframing (Oh My!)
It’s that time of year again! That’s right — Gabe’s Annual Birthday Blog. Each year, Gabe looks back on the important events and lessons he’s encountered during the previous 12 months. But what events can he talk about when COVID came and stole the show?
Join Gabe and Lisa as they discuss the Year of Coronavirus and the good and bad that came with it.
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Gabe Howard is an award-winning writer and speaker who lives with bipolar disorder. He is the author of the popular book, Mental I...
Source: World of Psychology - November 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: General Not Crazy Podcast Source Type: blogs
Using Reddit as a population-level “mental health tracker” during the COVID pandemic
Conclusions: By using a broad set of NLP techniques and analyzing a baseline of prepandemic posts, we uncovered patterns of how specific mental health problems manifest in language, identified at-risk users, and revealed the distribution of concerns across Reddit, which could help provide better resources to its millions of users. We then demonstrated that textual analysis is sensitive to uncover mental health complaints as they appear in real time, identifying vulnerable groups and alarming themes during COVID-19, and thus may have utility during the ongoing pandemic and other world-changing events such as elections and p...
Source: SharpBrains - November 9, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Technology & Innovation Uncategorized anxiety machine-learning mental health natural language processing pandemic Source Type: blogs
