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During one of my medical school away rotations in Ghana, I talked with many community members about mental health. To decrease the stigma of mental health conditions, we started so-called Brain Awareness activities in the Ketu South Munici pality in Ghana. The educational aspect of these activities was bidirectional: We taught community members about the brain’s parts, its function when it is healthy, and signs of mental illness. In return, the community members taught us by giving us some insight,
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Mashup Score: 10$3.3 billion available for mental health beds as Newsom kick-starts Prop. 1 spending - 14 hour(s) ago
Newsom is set to announce that the state will make $3.3 billion in funding available by July to begin building mental health treatment centers.
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Mashup Score: 5Number of Students Matching Into Psychiatry Increases for 13th Year - 14 hour(s) ago
Psychiatry continues to be a sought-after specialty with the promise of working in a variety of settings meeting an important need.
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Mashup Score: 4Mothers and Mental Health - 15 hour(s) ago
Mother’s Day offers a chance to explore the mental health challenges moms face, such as hormonal shifts, role changes, and social stressors.
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Mashup Score: 1Carl I. Cohen, MD: Dayenu! It Has to Be Enough - 15 hour(s) ago
Remembering the many ways Carl I. Cohen, MD, added to the field of psychiatry.
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Mashup Score: 0Psychiatrist Helps Lead Historic Crisis Services Investment - 18 hour(s) ago
Matthew Goldman, M.D., M.S., is serving as medical director of a major crisis initiative in King County, Wash., where a $1.2 billion investment will create five crisis care centers. He and his coll…
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Mashup Score: 2Remission and Relapse Across Three Years in Pediatric Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Following Evidence-Based Treatments - 19 hour(s) ago
To examine relapse rates following remission in a three-year follow-up study in pediatric OCD patients treated with cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) in a first step, and either continued CBT or sertraline (randomized selection) in a second step.
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Adults who are incarcerated have nearly nine times the risk of dying by suicide within a year of their release than those who have never be…
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This Special Communication reviews data about associations between maternal mortality and perinatal mental conditions, social determinants of health, suicide and addictive disorders, access limitations, and prenatal stress and describes efforts involving cross-disciplinary education and intervention…
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Mashup Score: 52
Interest in preventing suicides has increased greatly in recent years. In this Personal View, we consider the general global developments related to suicide prevention that have occurred in the decade since The Lancet Psychiatry was first published in 2014. We then review specific advances during this period, first, in relation to public health initiatives, and second, with regard to clinical developments. Finally, we examine some of the challenges that currently confront individuals and organisations responsible for designing and implementing suicide prevention measures.
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VIEWPOINTS | Instead of convincing community members to seek professional mental health services at health facilities, we organized workshops to discuss how religious leaders and #mentalhealth professionals can collaborate. https://t.co/o8vk0cIlyz #Psychiatry #MedX https://t.co/wMYkHeu0lP