EEG Shown Effective at Predicting Onset of Autism
Diagnosing autism early in kid’s life can help to mitigate its future development. Now researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital are reporting in journal Scientific Reports that they were able to use EEG (electroencephalography) to predict the onset of autism or rule out its development with impressive accuracy. A group of children was subjected to EEG monitoring every […]
Mobile App Helps People With SMI Create Crisis Plan
Mobile App Helps People With SMI Create Crisis Plan | Psychiatric News
Digital Literacy, Early Identification Programs Honored With APA’s Achievement Awards
Digital Literacy, Early Identification Programs Honored With APA’s Achievement Awards | Psychiatric News
Deep Brain Stimulation Shown Effective for Patients with Refractory Tourette Syndrome
While there are drugs and other therapies available for people with Tourette syndrome, many patients don’t respond to these options and continue producing random movements and sending shout outs, often of an unwelcome nature. Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have been studying thalamic deep brain stimulation for the last few years to potentially offer it […]
Future Of Mental Health Featuring Anthony Shriver: IDD Activist and Founder of Best Buddies (Re Play)
Anthony Shriver is passionate about inclusivity and a holistic approach to helping the population with Intellectual disabilities. He lovingly upholds the legacy his mother left (the founder of the Special Olympics) and has given many years to his…
Virtual Reality Game Links Depression to Hippocampus
Researchers at the University College London are using 3D virtual reality video games to advance our understanding of neuroanatomy and its association with clinical depression. Scientists are using a virtual-reality, three-dimensional video game that challenges spatial memory as a new tool for assessing the link between depression and the hippocampus, the brain’s memory hub. Spatial […]
Light and Sound Induce Brainwaves to Clear Brains of Amyloid Plaques
Light and Sound Induce Brainwaves to Clear Brains of Amyloid Plaques
MRI Maps of Brain’s Visual Cortex Connectivity Point to Mental Illness
Researchers at Duke University may have identified a way of predicting future (!) onset of mental illness. They used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study how various parts of the brain communicate with each other. What the investigators noticed is that those individuals with a poorly functioning visual cortex, that doesn’t seem to talk well […]
Brainsway Transcranial Stimulation Cleared in U.S. for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Brainsway Transcranial Stimulation Cleared in U.S. for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Whipping Up Enthusiasm (with whips)
The crew over at Improbable Research has brought our attention to an old article about the therapeutic uses of whips to treat and/or cure depression and suicide. Maybe I watched too many USA vs Russia movies growing up, but just the thought of being whipped by a Russian would cure me right up. Russian scientists from the […]
Internet-based Treatment for Depression and Panic Disorder Gains Steam
Internet-based Treatment for Depression and Panic Disorder Gains Steam
Deep Learning Algorithm Diagnoses Schizophrenia from fMRI Scans
A scientific collaboration between researchers at IBM and the University of Alberta in Canada has come up with a software tool that analyzes functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of patient brains and with 74% accuracy diagnoses schizophrenia. Moreover, the software’s algorithms were also able to reasonably estimate how bad the symptoms of the disease were in individual […]
Electrically Stimulating a Specific Brain Region using Ultrafine Wires Enhances Memory
Neuroscientists at UCLA have found that electrically stimulating a specific area of the brain using ultrafine wires enhances memory in epilepsy patients. If the technique can enhance memory in other patients, it might help with conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease. Our memory naturally declines with age, and in conditions such as Alzheimer’s, people can suffer […]
Milestones in the History of Schizophrenia. A Comprehensive Chronology of Schizophrenia Research: What Do We Know and When Did We Know It
Milestones in the History of Schizophrenia. A Comprehensive Chronology of Schizophrenia Research: What Do We Know and When Did We Know It | Psychiatric News
Electric Stimulation Drastically Improves Memory of Older Folks
The performance of our working memory starts to go down right around the time we finish residency. The older we get, the more difficulty we have forming new memories and holding on to them for a long time. Because it’s still a mystery how the memory system of our brains works, a decline in its […]
Smartphone App Spots Alcohol Withdrawal Fakers
Smartphone App Spots Alcohol Withdrawal Fakers
Intarcia Medici, a Tiny Implantable Pump for Drug Delivery
Intarcia Medici, a Tiny Implantable Pump for Drug Delivery
Major Depression Treated with Transcranial Alternating Current Brain Stimulation
There are implantable devices out there that are very effective at treating depression in a lot of patients. These look like pacemakers and they have electrical leads stretching out, usually, to the vagus nerve, and there are transcranial direct stimulation devices with electrodes placed directly onto the brain. Of course implants have a whole host […]
Tourette Syndrome Treated with Functional MRI
Researchers at Yale University have for the first time showed that it is possible to control the symptoms of Tourette Syndrome using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The researchers recruited twenty one 11 to 19 year-olds and used real-time fMRI neurofeedback (rt-fMRI-NF), a technology that lets patients monitor their own brain activity, to control the […]
Future Of Mental Health
Drew Robinson, American professional baseball infielder and outfielder in the San Francisco Giants organization, shares his story and newfound purpose after surviving a suicide attempt. In this episode, we discuss the topic of suicide, which may be…
JINS SCREEN Glasses Block Blue Light to Improve Sleep, Adjust Circadian Rhythms
Blue light has relatively recently been confirmed as a culprit that can distort people’s circadian rhythms and turn sleeping into a nightly challenge. With the ongoing proliferation of portable electronic devices that feature bright, high resolution screens, more and more people are absorbing large quantities of blue light through their eyes during evening hours when […]
Camera Pen Used to Assess Dementia in Patients Taking Drawing Tests
Simple tests that use a pen and paper to answer questions and create drawings are a common way of spotting signs of dementia, such as that caused by Alzheimer’s, stroke, or other diseases. Though quite effective, these tests tend to be quite late in actually spotting disease symptoms. Now a team of researchers from a […]
Anxiety in the Blood
Researchers at Hebrew University are developing a simple blood test to screen for anxiety. This could open the door to a new era in psychiatric diagnostics, and should challenge the perception that such disorders are “all in your head” (they seem to be in the blood, as well). IsraCast’s Iddo Genuth has more: Over the years studies have […]
Mental Health Care Providers’ Attitudes Toward Telepsychiatry: A Systemwide, Multisite Survey During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mental Health Care Providers’ Attitudes Toward Telepsychiatry: A Systemwide, Multisite Survey During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Psychiatric Services
Future Of Mental Health
Kenneth Cole, American fashion designer and former chairman of amfAR, founded the Mental Health Coalition which aims to bring together the nation’s leading mental health organizations, brands, and individuals to end the debilitating stigma…
Robot for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
Duke University’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences employs a coil positioning robot for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) at their Brain Stimulation Center. The SmartMove is a robotic TMS coil positioning system, developed by Advanced Neuro Technology (ANT) that closely follows slight head movements of the patient to precisely target the same spot in the […]
Telehealth Acceptability and Feasibility Among People Served in a Community Behavioral Health System During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Telehealth Acceptability and Feasibility Among People Served in a Community Behavioral Health System During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Psychiatric Services
Computer Characters Tortured for Science
Professor Mel Slater of the Catalan Polytechnic University has recreated the classic Milgram Experiment using a computer simulated woman, with some interesting results. In the original experiment, conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s, volunteers were told by an authority figure to deliver electric shocks to another person as punishment for incorrect answers to a test. The […]
Carrot Carbon Monoxide Breath Sensor System for Smoking Cessation Cleared for OTC by FDA
Carrot, a Redwood City, California firm, won FDA clearance for its Carbon Monoxide (CO) Breath Sensor System. It will be available as an over-the-counter product that’s designed to help smokers kick the habit as part of smoking cessation programs. The CO sensor features Bluetooth wireless connectivity, allowing it to interface with a smartphone app that […]
Future Of Mental Health
Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, a psychiatrist and author of Infidelity: Why Men and Women Cheat, discusses sex addiction. We’ll learn what’s a healthy amount of porn, when you’ve crossed the line from healthy sex to unhealthy behaviors, and more.
Resource Document Calls for Improved Residency Training on SUDs
Resource Document Calls for Improved Residency Training on SUDs | Psychiatric News
Earwax Sampling Device for Easy Cortisol Measurement
Earwax Sampling Device for Easy Cortisol Measurement
Future Of Mental Health
Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, an addiction expert and author of Glow Kids, shares how screen exposure is taking a toll on our mental health. You’ll hear from Dr. Kardaras on the long-term implications of screen time and the studies that show that excessive…