Debate: How and when will the telemedicine surge reach mental healthcare?

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 25, 2020

Covid-19 Pan­dem­ic Dri­ves Patients—and Deal Makers—to Telemed­i­cine (The Wall Street Jour­nal): The coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic has put the once-niche cat­e­go­ry of telemed­i­cine in the spot­light and is now dri­ving a flur­ry of deal activ­i­ty involv­ing vir­tu­al health-care providers … Patients have embraced vir­tu­al care as a way to stay in touch with doc­tors for urgent care or…

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Cómo minimizar el impacto del Covid-19 en nuestro cerebro

By Fundación Innovación Bankinter | June 19, 2020

(in Eng­lish: Three ways to pro­tect your men­tal health dur­ing –and after– COVID-19) Des­de la Fun­dación Inno­vación Bank­in­ter hemos orga­ni­za­do un ciclo de webi­na­rs sobre el impacto del Covid-19 en difer­entes aspec­tos sociales y económi­cos, para detec­tar qué opor­tu­nidades podremos encon­trar den­tro de esta situación. En primer lugar, y en clara relación con la neu­ro­cien­cia, la últi­ma ten­den­cia analizada…

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Reading science fiction can help children build critical thinking and resilience

By The Conversation | June 9, 2020

Young peo­ple who are hooked on watch­ing fan­ta­sy or read­ing sci­ence fic­tion may be on to some­thing. Con­trary to a com­mon mis­per­cep­tion that read­ing this genre is an unwor­thy prac­tice, read­ing sci­ence fic­tion and fan­ta­sy may help young peo­ple cope, espe­cial­ly with the stress and anx­i­ety of liv­ing through the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. I am a…

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Trend: Growing interest in digital mental health among insurers and medical care providers

By SharpBrains | April 30, 2020

__ In Men­tal Health Play, UnitedHealth’s Optum May Buy Vir­tu­al Provider Able­To (Forbes): “Unit­ed­Health Group’s Optum med­ical provider unit may increase its invest­ment in Able­To, a provider of vir­tu­al behav­ioral health­care ser­vices. Such a deal, which some reports say could be an out­right acqui­si­tion, would be sig­nif­i­cant because

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Lessons from Covid-19: Could a New Normal lead to better brains, bodies and societies?

By Alvaro Fernandez | April 29, 2020

__ In the age of Covid-19, what is the new nor­mal? How many of us have been expe­ri­enc­ing the heady cock­tail of con­fu­sion, anx­i­ety, and even some sur­pris­ing moments of respite from our recent-past busy rise-and-grind, hus­tle cul­ture rou­tines? Our social media feeds are filled with urgent and often con­flict­ing imper­a­tives to change our routines…

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