Woebot Health

Separating brain-healthy wheat from chaff is becoming more urgent by the day

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A) New video game com­pa­ny aims to devel­op ther­a­peu­tic games (The Verge):

Video game-based tools can help with con­di­tions like depres­sion and ADHD, research shows. Deep­Well Dig­i­tal Ther­a­peu­tics plans to build on those stud­ies. “There was an amaz­ing amount of sci­ence that had already been done,” Dou­glas says. “We start­ed to rec­og­nize exact­ly how ther­a­peu­tic these games already were.” [Read more…] about Sep­a­rat­ing brain-healthy wheat from chaff is becom­ing more urgent by the day

AI-powered Woebot raises $90M to scale up digital self-therapy platform

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‘Dig­i­tal ther­a­pist’ Woe­bot perks up with $90M for AI-pow­ered men­tal health plat­form (Fierce­Biotech):

In news sure to excite even the most melan­choly of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence-pow­ered chat­bots, men­tal health plat­form Woe­bot has closed its series B fund­ing round with a whop­ping $90 mil­lion. [Read more…] about AI-pow­ered Woe­bot rais­es $90M to scale up dig­i­tal self-ther­a­py platform