Trend: Wider use of mental health screenings in school-based settings

By SharpBrains | February 3, 2015

. Anoka-Hen­nepin Schools May Start Depres­sion Screen­ings (CBS Min­neso­ta): “Minnesota’s largest school dis­trict is dis­cussing screen­ing high school stu­dents for depres­sion and anx­i­ety in the class­room… Dr. Nita Kumar, a men­tal health con­sul­tant for the dis­trict, said Fri­day that the idea is to get stu­dents to talk about some­thing they may hide from their parents…

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Allstate: Can we improve Driver Safety using Posit Science InSight?

By Alvaro Fernandez | October 1, 2008

Insur­ance com­pa­ny All­state and brain fit­ness soft­ware devel­op­er Posit Sci­ence just announced (see press release Pro­tect­ing Penn­syl­va­nia Dri­vers, One Brain at a Time) a very intel­li­gent ini­tia­tive: Video exer­cis­es aid dri­ving skills (Chica­go Tri­bune) -“All­state, which called the Posit pro­gram “poten­tial­ly the next big break­through in auto­mo­bile safe­ty,” said it expects its soft­ware exer­cis­es to…

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