Using a recently developed technology for analyzing DNA, scientists have found dozens of genes and two major biological pathways that are likely involved in the development of the disorder but had not been uncovered in previous genetic studies of schizophrenia. The work provides important new information about how schizophrenia originates and points the way to more detailed studies -- and possibly better treatments in the future. Schizophrenia is a chronic, disabling mental illness whose symptoms can include hallucinations, delusions and cognitive problems. The illness afflicts about 1 percent of the human population.
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Compared with the total time spent on social media use of multiple platforms is more strongly associated with depression and anxiety among young adults researchers have found in a national survey People who report using seven to 11 social media platforms had more than three times the risk of depression and anxiety than their peers who use zero to two platforms even after adjusting for the total time spent on social media overall
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The human brain and the seemingly infinite number of health complications that can befall it are complex As such there arent universally agreed-upon therapies and treatments for conditions ranging from depression and chronic pain to stroke and Parkinsons disease But recent rapid advances in neuroscience research and digital technology are enabling a new wave of tools to gain traction in neurological or mental health settings
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A recent study published by Psychiatric Services found that mobile health interventions were as effective in treating patients with serious mental illness compared to an in-person group therapy.
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Smartphones and health apps are emerging as a potentially beneficial resource for those with mental health conditions But so far little is understood about how that data can guide treatment Those digital biomarkers collected through mental health apps are part of a new digital divide according to researchers
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People searching for depression on Google will soon be prompted to take a questionnaire to assess if they may be suffering from the illness.The search giant has partnered with the US National Alliance on Mental Illness (Nami) to roll out the project which is currently only for US users.Users searching for depression will be prompted to check if youre clinically depressed.
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May 2016 marks the 67th time the United States has observed Mental Health Awareness Month. It has been more than six decades of steps forward in the public perception of mental illness, but the White House and Mental Health America are encouraging citizens to go the rest of the way.
Last year, Mental Health America used the national attention to spark a conversation about how people whose mental illness is addressed before Stage 4 can recover quickly.
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After state regulators identified concerns about access to mental health services, Kaiser Permanente is investing in telehealth technology as part of a broad effort to resolve behavioral health deficiencies. The investment is part of a settlement between the health system and California's Department of Managed Health Care.
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The diagnoses of 27.3 percent of patients with depression and 27.7 percent of patients with bipolar disorder were missing from their primary care electronic health records, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association has found.
These behavioral health patients had an average of three to eight visits during the year both at the EHR site and outside the site. But despite these high numbers, the data from the encounters were underreported.
In the study, researchers from the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School studied Harvard Pilgrim Health Care patients at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates who in 2009, who had a depression or bipolar diagnosis. Researchers studied outpatient care visits and calculated the proportion of these visits not found in the EHR.
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Exponential Medicine 2016 was held last month in San Diego, California and videos from many of the presentations at the conference are now available. We just started watching the talks that most interest us and this one by Arshya Vahabzadeh M.D. about the potential for modern technology to influence mental health is fascinating and inspiring.
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Fixing the nation's broken system of care for millions of Americans suffering from mental illness and drug addiction has risen to the top of Congress' agenda. The big question is whether lawmakers will have enough time to tackle the issue during the lame-duck session.
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A new study from Regenstrief Institute, Indiana University Center for Aging Research, IU Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science, and Eskenazi Health resulted in lowered depression severity by more than 50 percent over six months.
The effort, Aging Brain Care Medical Home – ABC for short – is a new brain-focused population health management program implemented in the homes of older adults.
The ABC Medical Home program runs with a trained and scalable workforce of care coordinator assistants. They form the core of and interdisciplinary care team of nurses, social workers, and physicians, all responsible for meeting the complex biopsychosocial brain-care needs of older adults.
"Response to Depression Treatment in the Aging Brain Care Medical Home Model" is published online in Clinical Interventions in Aging, a peer-reviewed open access journal.
The implementation study provides strong evidence of the sustained effectiveness of the
A study of the initiative revealed that the ABC Medical Home program demonstrated sustained effectiveness at lowering depression by employing a workforce that develops long-term relationships with the patients through home visits and telephone contacts.
The more than 50 percent decrease in depression symptoms occurred in individuals with high levels of the symptoms. While women experienced improvement sooner than men, there was no gender difference in decrease of the symptons at the end of six months.
In older adults with low levels of depression, depression scores remained low over time indicating that the care model prevented depression symptoms from recurring.
[See also: Regenstrief Institute selects Ohio State’s Peter Embi for CEO post.]
Michael LaMantia, M.D., MPH, first author of the new study, offers the following analogy to explain the different responses of older adults with high levels of depressive symptoms and those with low levels. "If you have people who are driving a car at 60 miles per hour, these drivers have a lot of room to decelerate over time because they are going at a high speed; similarly there is significant room for symptom decease in those with high symptom levels; but for those with low depressive symptom levels, like those drivers traveling 5 or 10 miles per hour, there isn't a whole lot of decline possible. Keeping them from accelerating is the goal."
"The heart of the ABC Medical Home model is collaborative care,” said Michael LaMantia, MD, the chief author of the study. LaMantia, is a former Regenstrief Institute and IU Center for Aging Research investigator who recently who is now Section Head of Geriatric Medicine and associate professor of medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.
The ABC Medical Home program is centered at Eskenazi Health, an academic, urban, public hospital, at 10 community health centers located in Indianapolis, and in the homes of patients who receive medical care at these facilities.
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In 2018, the World Health Organization will include "gaming disorder" in a list of mental health conditions in the 11th International Classification of Diseases.
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Smartphone apps designed for those with depression can significantly reduce users symptoms, according to the results of a recently published meta-analysis. While the findings are limited to those with mild-to-moderate depression, the apps consistent effect across age and gender suggest that the benefits are wide reaching.
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InvisALERT developed a workflow tool using a wearable to improve the way psychiatric hospital staff monitors patients.
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A group of mental health experts from around the world says the future of psychiatry relies on the ability to integrate new technology into the rapidly evolving specialty. Outlining expectations for the specialty's future, a commission established by the World Psychiatric Association and The Lancet Psychiatry said the "digital psychiatry revolution has arrived."
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People whove been diagnosed with depression tend to post pictures that are bluer, darker, and show fewer faces, according to a small, proof-of-concept study.
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A new report by advocates for Michigans public Medicaid behavioral health system estimates it has saved the state 53 billion over the past 18 years and would save an additional 74 billion through 2024 using their patient-centered and integrated care modelThey also contend rate increases for behavioral health systems were lower than Medicaid HMOs and state Medicaid programs during that period A trade group for the HMOs contends that the comparison is unfair because the figures used for HMOs are national in scope rather than focused on MichiganThe report comes as advocates of Michigans public Medicaid mental health system plan to present a case for retaining the current 26 billion system Gov Rick Snyder has proposed to allow Medicaid HMOs some of them for-profit companies to
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In 2017, everything is just one click away, maybe even a mental illness. Google have partnered with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to create a self-assessment test that enables US users to see if they should seek help for depression. All you have to do is type am I depressed? into the search engine to find the easy to use questionnaire.
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An international team of 260 researchers has identified several rare genetic variations that can raise the risk of schizophrenia by up to 60-fold.
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