Future Of Mental Health Dr. Arthur Evans (CEO at the American Psychological Association) — Racism and Mental Health
Dr. Arthur C. Evans, Jr., chief executive officer and executive vice president of the American Psychological Association, addresses barriers and the work that is being done behind the scenes on population health, early intervention and comparable…
Future Of Mental Health
Josh Groban, multi-platinum, award winning singer/songwriter, shares his personal experience with anxiety and an attention deficit disorder. Josh shares how the arts have always been an avenue for him to find balance, and why he is so passionate…
Future Of Mental Health
Co-hosts Marjorie Morrison, Psych Hub co-founder and chief executive officer, and former U.S. Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy, Psych Hub co-founder, share their ‘why’ behind the podcast. Mental health issues have always been pervasive, but COVID-19 has…
Video Game Uses Brain Wave Monitoring to Treat ADHD
While there are a number of drugs to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), they can have some pretty serious side effects. Researchers in Singapore at the country’s Institute of Mental Health (IMH), Duke-NUS (National University of Singapore) Medical School, and A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), have developed a system that combines neuromonitoring […]
Virtual Reality Forest Project Creates Novel Environment for Dementia Patients, Caretakers (VIDEO)
Video games have been used in a number of therapeutic applications, such as managing pain in burn victims and helping youngsters deal with depression. A new project in Australia is bringing together video game technology with gesture recognition and some other components to create a virtual reality interactive environment for dementia patients and their caretakers. The project is […]
KINARM Assessment Station Utilizes Virtual Reality for Brain Injury Assessment
This week, researchers from Queen’s University in Canada are launching the KINARM Assessment Station at the Neuroscience 2010 conference in San Diego. The system combines a virtual reality simulator with a chair that features robotic arms that sense user motion. Clinicians can assign tasks for a patient to perform in the virtual world, and the […]
A New Tool for Evaluating Learning Disabilities in Children
A New Tool for Evaluating Learning Disabilities in Children
Ohio State Studying Medical Aspects of Video Games in New Esports Program
Ohio State Studying Medical Aspects of Video Games in New Esports Program
Caregivers Want Robots to Take Care of Annoying Dementia Sufferers
People with dementia, as well as those that take care of them, can benefit from a bit of robotic assistance. There are a few robots on the market that are designed to help elderly people around the house, but not too much exists for those suffering from cognitive decline. While there’s been development in this […]
An Early Blood Test for Autism Shows Promise: Interview with Sek Won Kong, MD
An Early Blood Test for Autism Shows Promise: Interview with Sek Won Kong, MD
Art Therapy Using Virtual Reality
Art Therapy Using Virtual Reality
Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset Used to Fight Phobias
While the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality immersion device, is slated for release only early next year, researchers are already trying to implement practical uses for it. At Santa Clara University a couple engineering and computer science students are working on using the Rift to fight phobias, initially focusing on a fear of heights and flying. With […]
MagVenture MagVita Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation FDA Approved
MagVenture, a company out of Farum, Denmark, won FDA clearance for its MagVita transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) therapy system to be used in the U.S. to treat major depressive disorder in patients who failed to respond to other therapies. In 2011, the device was the first TMS system approved in the European Union. Features of […]
Virtual Reality Used to Study Origin of Fear and Anxiety
Our irrational fears are both very real and are also figments of our imagination. By manipulating what we think of as reality, researchers at Stanford University are working to understand the source of our anxieties and how to alleviate them. In order to do so, they built a virtual reality chamber where one’s fears can […]
Mental Health Services in a U.S. Prison During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Mental Health Services in a U.S. Prison During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Psychiatric Services
Simple Test Uses UV Light to Measure Stress Levels
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have developed a simple biosensor that uses UV light to measure levels of stress hormones in saliva, blood, urine, or sweat. The researchers hope that the test will eventually be available as an at-home test kit that people can use to assess their stress. Other applications include monitoring people […]
Augmented Reality Systems May be Beneficial in Treating Real Phobias
Exposure therapy is one well known technique used to treat people’s phobias, but the knowledge that one will have to face the actual source of the fear may be too much for someone to even consider starting. A team of Spanish scientists has now shown that using special glasses to overlay virtual cockroaches onto one’s […]
Detecting Depression in Blogs and Online Texts
In a Thought Police kind of way, a new computer program can detect depression through your online writing. Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beer-Sheva, Israel, have developed a program that detects depression in text without obvious terms like “depression” or “suicide”. In a sample of 200 positively identified texts out of 300,000 […]
Klue Hand Tracking Tech for Behavior Change to be Tried at Stanford, Crossover Health
Klue Hand Tracking Tech for Behavior Change to be Tried at Stanford, Crossover Health
Neurostimulation for Mental Health
For those interested in a quick review of the latest in magnetic and electric stimulation for treatment of psychiatric disorders, The Wall Street Journal covers a few interesting technologies that are out there. Physicians have known for 2,000 years that electricity could help troubled minds—even before they knew what electricity was. Roman Emperor Claudius pressed electric eels […]
Promoting Population Behavioral Health in a Safety-Net Health System During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Promoting Population Behavioral Health in a Safety-Net Health System During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Psychiatric Services
Starling Keeps Track of Kids Use of Words, Exposure to Spoken Language
Starling Keeps Track of Kids Use of Words, Exposure to Spoken Language
Technology Used to Measure Empathy
Watch out medical students, the next time you have to practice breaking bad news to standardized patients, you may be hooked up to skin sensors to measure the quality of your empathy. “To our knowledge, this is the first study of the physiology of shared emotions during live psychotherapy sessions,” said Carl Marci, the Harvard […]
Psychotherapy Said to Be Key to Successful Psychosis Treatment
Psychotherapy Said to Be Key to Successful Psychosis Treatment | Psychiatric News
The Role of Modern Technology to Treat Mental Health Conditions
Exponential Medicine 2016 was held last month in San Diego, California and videos from many of the presentations at the conference are now available. We just started watching the talks that most interest us and this one by Arshya Vahabzadeh M.D. about the potential for modern technology to influence mental health is fascinating and inspiring. We’ll be watching […]
Engineer Creates Biofeedback Pen for Stress Control
Miguel Bruns Alonso, a graduate student at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, has developed a pen that detects how much twitching and twirling it’s being put through. People under stress tend to move and shake a pen more than someone who is calm. In order to try to get a therapeutic effect out […]
Neuronetics TMS Depression Therapy Gets FDA OK
Neuronetics, a Malvern, Pennsylvania company, has won FDA’s first approval for a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) system for treatment of depression in patients that don’t respond to drug therapy. This is a huge step for a technology we’ve been following for many years now. Deep TMS devices are thought not only to help with depression, […]
Integrating Videoconferencing Into Treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Practical Strategies With Case Examples
Integrating Videoconferencing Into Treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Practical Strategies With Case Examples | Psychiatric Services
Virtual Reality for Virtual Unreality
Two scientific teams, from University College London and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, managed to recreate the feeling of stepping out of one’s body using a virtual reality system. In Switzerland, Dr. Olaf Blanke, a neuroscientist at the École Polytechnique FÉdÉrale in Lausanne, asked people to don virtual-reality goggles while standing in […]
URGONight EEG Headband Trains Your Brain to Sleep Better: Seen at CES 2019
We all know the feeling: setting our alarm and trying to fall asleep, only to recognize that the brain has a different plan and refuses to calm down. Therefore, we end up tossing and turning, checking the time every 10 minutes to see how long we have left before we have to get up, and […]
Developing the Next Generation of DBS Devices
Philips is teaming up with NeuroNexus Technologies, out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, to develop smaller, more responsive, and MRI friendly deep brain stimulation devices. NeuroNexus has an expertise in silicon and polymer based micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) designed specifically for brain interface. According to the company’s website, they have developed the technology that enables “placement of sophisticated microelectronic […]
Contemplating Changes From a Transformative Year
Contemplating Changes From a Transformative Year | Psychiatric News
The Sun Will Come Out… NOW.
Just in time for the January blahs, some technology news for seasonal affective disorder (SAD). It seems that blasting your face with 30 minutes of bright light at breakfast is no longer the only way to cheer up: In the study, dawn simulation and negative air ionization, both activated toward the end of sleep, proved to be […]