Posts Tagged ‘mental-illness’
Global mental healthcare meets the digital revolution
“…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 MoreOtsuka Pharma and Click Therapeutics enter partnership poised to transform mental healthcare
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 MoreOn Mental Health and the advent of Digital Phenotyping
___ 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…
Read MoreFive reasons to welcome Digital Mental Health innovations
___ 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…
Read MoreMixed reactions on the development of digital biomarkers and growth of Mindstrong Health
___ (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…
Read MoreBrain scan study finds links between adolescent brain development and mental health disorders
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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