cognitive behavior therapy

AI-powered Woebot raises $90M to scale up digital self-therapy platform

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‘Dig­i­tal ther­a­pist’ Woe­bot perks up with $90M for AI-pow­ered men­tal health plat­form (Fierce­Biotech):

In news sure to excite even the most melan­choly of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence-pow­ered chat­bots, men­tal health plat­form Woe­bot has closed its series B fund­ing round with a whop­ping $90 mil­lion. [Read more…] about AI-pow­ered Woe­bot rais­es $90M to scale up dig­i­tal self-ther­a­py platform

Therapy or antidepressants? Coming soon: Brain activity “fingerprints” to personalize depression treatments

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mental health.

To Treat Depres­sion, Drugs or Ther­a­py? (The New York Times):

“Until recent­ly, many experts thought that your clin­i­cian could lit­er­al­ly pick any anti­de­pres­sant or type of psy­chother­a­py at ran­dom because, with a few clin­i­cal excep­tions, there was lit­tle evi­dence to favor one treat­ment over anoth­er for a giv­en patient [Read more…] about Ther­a­py or anti­de­pres­sants? Com­ing soon: Brain activ­i­ty “fin­ger­prints” to per­son­al­ize depres­sion treatments

Questioning brain health status quo in depression and Alzheimer’s

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mentalhealthpuzzleTwo good recent pieces in The New York Times bring to the fore­front the need to ques­tion sta­tus quo mind­set and prac­tices about how to mea­sure and enhance brain health.

Sleep Ther­a­py Seen as an Aid for Depression