mental-illness

Global mental healthcare meets the digital revolution

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“…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, [Read more…] about Glob­al men­tal health­care meets the dig­i­tal revolution

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

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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) [Read more…] about Otsu­ka Phar­ma and Click Ther­a­peu­tics enter part­ner­ship poised to trans­form men­tal healthcare

On Mental Health and the advent of Digital Phenotyping

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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 com­bus­tions.” Remov­ing their hand, they look close­ly at your appear­ance and pro­nounce their assess­ment: you do, in fact, have a fever. You might (jus­ti­fi­ably) be dubi­ous [Read more…] about On Men­tal Health and the advent of Dig­i­tal Phenotyping

Five reasons to welcome Digital Mental Health innovations

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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 of the most mind-blow­ing find­ings: [Read more…] about Five rea­sons to wel­come Dig­i­tal Men­tal Health innovations

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

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(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 have in com­mon: a smart­phone [Read more…] about Mixed reac­tions on the devel­op­ment of dig­i­tal bio­mark­ers and growth of Mind­strong Health

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

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– “Brain hubs”, cour­tesy of Uni­ver­si­ty of Cambridge

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 and deci­sion mak­ing are still chang­ing [Read more…] about Brain scan study finds links between ado­les­cent brain devel­op­ment and men­tal health disorders