Global mental healthcare meets the digital revolution

By SharpBrains | January 14, 2019

“…When com­mit­ting to the Unit­ed Nations’ Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals in 2015, world lead­ers empha­sized the impor­tance of pro­mot­ing men­tal health and well-being world­wide. Yet three years lat­er, the sit­u­a­tion remains grim. Every year, 800,000 lives are lost due to sui­cide. In the Unit­ed States alone, 

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Otsuka Pharma and Click Therapeutics enter partnership poised to transform mental healthcare

By SharpBrains | January 4, 2019

Otsu­ka, Click Ther­a­peu­tics part­ner to cre­ate ther­a­py for men­tal ill­ness (Ver­dict Med­ical Devices): “Otsu­ka Pharmaceutical’s US divi­sion Otsu­ka Amer­i­ca has part­nered with Click Ther­a­peu­tics to devel­op and com­mer­cialise a pre­scrip­tion dig­i­tal ther­a­peu­tic for treat­ing major depres­sive dis­or­der (MDD)

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On Mental Health and the advent of Digital Phenotyping

By SharpBrains | December 4, 2018

___ Build­ing the Ther­mome­ter for Men­tal Health (The Dana Foun­da­tion): “Imag­ine that you vis­it your physi­cian com­plain­ing of a fever and, rather than tak­ing out a ther­mome­ter, they begin hov­er­ing their “edu­cat­ed hands” over you. Grad­u­al­ly, they press down against your arm to gain a full impres­sion of your skin’s tem­per­a­ture and the “deep­er seated…

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Five reasons to welcome Digital Mental Health innovations

By SharpBrains | November 20, 2018

___ Map­ping out the Men­tal Health start­up ecosys­tem (Medi­um): “Today, 1 in 5 peo­ple have a diag­nos­able men­tal ill­ness, and 1 in 20 peo­ple have dif­fi­cul­ty lead­ing their every­day life due to men­tal ill­ness. How­ev­er before even talk­ing about the preva­lence of the issue?…one must real­ize how inef­fec­tive the cur­rent infra­struc­ture is. Here are some…

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Mixed reactions on the development of digital biomarkers and growth of Mindstrong Health

By SharpBrains | November 12, 2018

___ (More on the pos­i­tive side, at MIT Tech­nol­o­gy Review) The smart­phone app that can tell you’re depressed before you know it your­self: “There are about 45 mil­lion peo­ple in the US alone with a men­tal ill­ness, and those ill­ness­es and their cours­es of treat­ment can vary tremen­dous­ly. But there is some­thing most of those people…

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Brain scan study finds links between adolescent brain development and mental health disorders

By SharpBrains | August 3, 2016

Scans reveal how teenage brain devel­ops (BBC News): “The team from Cam­bridge’s depart­ment of psy­chi­a­try scanned the brains of 300 peo­ple between the ages of 14 and 24. While the areas asso­ci­at­ed with the basic func­tion­ing of the body such as vision, hear­ing and move­ment are ful­ly devel­oped by ado­les­cence, the areas asso­ci­at­ed with com­plex thought…

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