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Digital mental health intervention by the World Health Organization (WHO) found to lower anxiety and depression, with improvements maintained at 3‑month follow-up

July 5, 2022 by SharpBrains Leave a Comment

WHO dig­i­tal men­tal health inter­ven­tion effec­tive in reduc­ing depres­sion among Syr­i­an refugees in Lebanon (press release):

A new dig­i­tal men­tal health inter­ven­tion, Step-by-Step, devel­oped by the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO) with the Nation­al Men­tal Health Pro­gramme (NMHP) at the Min­istry of Pub­lic Health Lebanon and oth­er part­ners, was effec­tive in reduc­ing depres­sion among Syr­i­an refugees in Lebanon, accord­ing to a study pub­lished in PLOS Med­i­cine. [Read more…] about Dig­i­tal men­tal health inter­ven­tion by the World Health Orga­ni­za­tion (WHO) found to low­er anx­i­ety and depres­sion, with improve­ments main­tained at 3‑month follow-up

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: anxiety, depression, digital mental health, gratitude exercise, mental-disorders, positive self-talk, post-traumatic stress, stress-management, well-being

AI-enabled chatbot Wysa receives FDA Breakthrough Device designation for patients with chronic pain, depression and anxiety

June 6, 2022 by SharpBrains Leave a Comment

AI Behav­ior Health Chat­bot App Fast-Tracked by FDA (Psy­chol­o­gy Today):

Recent­ly the U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion (FDA) grant­ed break­through device des­ig­na­tion to Wysa’s AI-based dig­i­tal men­tal health con­ver­sa­tion­al agent that deliv­ers cog­ni­tive behav­ioral ther­a­py (CBT) via a smart­phone to adults suf­fer­ing from depres­sion, anx­i­ety, and chron­ic mus­cu­loskele­tal pain [Read more…] about AI-enabled chat­bot Wysa receives FDA Break­through Device des­ig­na­tion for patients with chron­ic pain, depres­sion and anxiety

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: anxiety, artificial intelligence, CBT, chronic musculoskeletal pain, cognitive-behavioral-therapy, depression, digital mental health, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, mental health industry, smartphone, Wysa

Headspace Health acquires AI-driven digital mental health start-up Sayana

January 18, 2022 by SharpBrains

JPM 2022: Head­space Health grabs start­up Sayana to build out AI-based men­tal health tools (Fierce Healthcare):

Six months after the $3 bil­lion merg­er with Gin­ger, Head­space Health acquired Sayana, an AI-dri­ven men­tal health and well­ness company.

Sayana will expand Head­space Health’s abil­i­ty to pro­vide per­son­al­ized self-care con­tent to its 100 mil­lion users, exec­u­tives said … Head­space lever­ages AI to pow­er a sig­nif­i­cant per­cent­age of the care the com­pa­ny deliv­ers, [Rus­sell Glass, CEO, Head­space Health] said dur­ing the JPM con­fer­ence, includ­ing using nat­ur­al lan­guage pro­cess­ing to extract infor­ma­tion from the chats, to sum­ma­rize coach notes and care infor­ma­tion and to mon­i­tor for sui­ci­dal­i­ty … [Read more…] about Head­space Health acquires AI-dri­ven dig­i­tal men­tal health start-up Sayana

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: acceptance commitment therapy, AI-driven mental health, breathing exercises, cognitive-behavioral-therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, digital mental health, Ginger, Headspace Health, Sayana

APA: With digital mental health going mainstream, will/ should psychologists be able to “prescribe” interventions?

January 14, 2022 by SharpBrains

Men­tal health, meet ven­ture cap­i­tal (APA):

Until recent­ly, men­tal health was a rel­a­tive blip on the radar of ven­ture cap­i­tal­ists. But over the past few years, and par­tic­u­lar­ly since the onset of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, pri­vate investors have made a dra­mat­ic run for this space, pour­ing $3.1 bil­lion into men­tal health ven­tures by the third quar­ter of 2021 alone, accord­ing to Rock Health, a seed fund that sup­ports star­tups work­ing in dig­i­tal health. That rep­re­sents a third of all dig­i­tal health fund­ing for 2021, more than 7 times the amount of fund­ing placed in such ven­tures in 2015. [Read more…] about APA: With dig­i­tal men­tal health going main­stream, will/ should psy­chol­o­gists be able to “pre­scribe” interventions?

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: anxiety, APA, COVID, depression, digital mental health, FDA, FDA-approved, insomnia, meditation, mental health, mindfulness, prescription, Psychology, Rock Health, substance use, trauma, venture-capital

Solera Health includes Ginger and eMindful to expand digital mental healthcare platform

December 6, 2021 by SharpBrains

Sol­era expands men­tal health net­work with new part­ners Gin­ger and eMind­ful (Fierce Healthcare):

Sol­era Health, a plat­form that links peo­ple with a curat­ed col­lec­tion of health solu­tions, is adding men­tal health com­pa­nies Gin­ger and eMind­ful to its net­work of partners.

Gin­ger, a provider of on-demand vir­tu­al men­tal health care, and eMind­ful, which offers evi­dence-based mind­ful­ness pro­grams, will join Solera’s men­tal and behav­ioral health net­work, where an algo­rithm will con­nect patients with the pro­grams best suit­ed to their needs. [Read more…] about Sol­era Health includes Gin­ger and eMind­ful to expand dig­i­tal men­tal health­care platform

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Behavioral Health, digital mental health, eMindful, Ginger, Headspace, mindfulness, Solera Health

Trend: Harnessing digital tech to improve mental health and wellness

October 25, 2021 by SharpBrains

From mind­ful­ness apps to vir­tu­al ther­a­py ses­sions, dig­i­tal tools offer instant access to well­ness resources (The Globe and Mail):

In 2015, Brie Code was work­ing at lead­ing video game com­pa­ny Ubisoft as lead arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence pro­gram­mer when she real­ized that many peo­ple she knew – about half, by her esti­ma­tion – found video games bor­ing. [Read more…] about Trend: Har­ness­ing dig­i­tal tech to improve men­tal health and wellness

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: Breathing, Calm, chronic insomnia, Clue, cognitive behavioural therapy, digital mental health, digital therapeutic, digital wellness, Global Wellness Institute, global wellness market, Headspace, Hydro Coach, market-research, meditation, meditative tasks, mental wellness market, mental-wellness, mindfulness, neurotech, neurotechnologies, Neurotechnology, prescription-only digital therapeutic, SelfCare, Somryst, Tru Luv, Ubisoft, video-games

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