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Mashup Score: 9The Wired Couch: Untangling the Promise and Peril of Telepsychiatry and Mental Health Apps - 11 hour(s) ago
The human mind faces an unprecedented revolution in the digital age, transforming how we connect and access mental health care. Commercial telepsychiatry and mental health apps offer virtual therapy, self-help tools, and AI companions on smartphones. Despite promises of accessibility and convenience, psychiatry is grappling with ethical concerns and potential pitfalls in this technological shift. Imagine a world in which geographical barriers, long wait times, and extreme costs no longer impede the path
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Mashup Score: 1In Addressing Maternal Mortality, Mental Health Often Left Out - 14 hour(s) ago
Mental health conditions are the leading underlying cause of maternal mortality, yet mental health is often left out of national initiatives to improve maternal outcomes. Experts say much more need…
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Mashup Score: 1Psychiatrists Urge Wider Adoption of Standardized MH Assessments - 18 hour(s) ago
Moving to a nationally standardized tool for patient assessments will result in more objective, transparent, and equitable treatment plans and may make it easier to overcome prior authorizations or…
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Mashup Score: 3CBT More Effective Than Mindfulness for Prolonged Grief Symptoms Over Time, Study Finds - 20 hour(s) ago
Both grief-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy improved patients’ symptoms of prolonged grie…
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Mashup Score: 4APA’s Government, Policy, and Advocacy Update (April 2024) - 1 day(s) ago
Recently, APA staff spoke with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) staff to request that they make the telehealth flexibilities introduced during the COVID-19 public health emergency permanent. On January 29, APA staff joined 11 other organizations on a call with CMS. Participants from APA, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Neurology, and the American Geriatrics Society expressed their support for payment parity for telehealth services. They cited parity as a top
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Mashup Score: 16MedCheck; Psilocybin, Roluperidone, Latozinemab, Lacosamide - 2 day(s) ago
Incannex’s investigational psilocybin product PSX-001 appeared to be effective in relieving symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder in a phase 2 clinical trial, the company announced in February. In the PsiGAD1 trial, 72 patients with generalized anxiety disorder were randomized > to receive psychotherapy with either psilocybin or placebo for seven weeks. Their symptoms were measured with the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) at baseline and at 11 weeks. The reduction in HAM-A score from baseline in
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Mashup Score: 6What Is Autism Spectrum Disorder? - 2 day(s) ago
Learn about Autism Spectrum Disorder, including symptoms, risk factors, treatment options and answers to common questions.
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Mashup Score: 5Reflecting on Forgiveness - 2 day(s) ago
I have been participating recently in a weekly group discussion with psychoanalysts. The talk generally focuses on scholarly writings of analysts, and sometimes others, who have be en reflecting on race and its place in analytic discourse. I am indebted to this group’s interest in and disciplined exploration of this intriguing arena of scholarship and clinical practice. In my case, it has meant expanding my intellectual horizons and engaging with a literature that, without explicit encouragement, I would
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Mashup Score: 8Very Young Children Exposed to Anesthesia May Be at Higher Risk of Childhood Bipolar Disorder - 2 day(s) ago
Infants and toddlers who are exposed to general anesthesia may be at increased risk for bipolar disorder later in childhood compared with i…
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Mashup Score: 1
While a series of machine learning programs did well when trained on a particular set of patient data, their ability to predict outcomes in independent samples was not impressive.
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