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Mashup Score: 9The Wired Couch: Untangling the Promise and Peril of Telepsychiatry and Mental Health Apps - 15 hour(s) ago
The human mind faces an unprecedented revolution in the digital age, transforming how we connect and access mental health care. Commercial telepsychiatry and mental health apps offer virtual therapy, self-help tools, and AI companions on smartphones. Despite promises of accessibility and convenience, psychiatry is grappling with ethical concerns and potential pitfalls in this technological shift. Imagine a world in which geographical barriers, long wait times, and extreme costs no longer impede the path
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Mashup Score: 1In Addressing Maternal Mortality, Mental Health Often Left Out - 18 hour(s) ago
Mental health conditions are the leading underlying cause of maternal mortality, yet mental health is often left out of national initiatives to improve maternal outcomes. Experts say much more need…
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Mashup Score: 1Psychiatrists Urge Wider Adoption of Standardized MH Assessments - 22 hour(s) ago
Moving to a nationally standardized tool for patient assessments will result in more objective, transparent, and equitable treatment plans and may make it easier to overcome prior authorizations or…
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Mashup Score: 4APA’s Government, Policy, and Advocacy Update (April 2024) - 2 day(s) ago
Recently, APA staff spoke with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) staff to request that they make the telehealth flexibilities introduced during the COVID-19 public health emergency permanent. On January 29, APA staff joined 11 other organizations on a call with CMS. Participants from APA, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Neurology, and the American Geriatrics Society expressed their support for payment parity for telehealth services. They cited parity as a top
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Mashup Score: 16MedCheck; Psilocybin, Roluperidone, Latozinemab, Lacosamide - 2 day(s) ago
Incannex’s investigational psilocybin product PSX-001 appeared to be effective in relieving symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder in a phase 2 clinical trial, the company announced in February. In the PsiGAD1 trial, 72 patients with generalized anxiety disorder were randomized > to receive psychotherapy with either psilocybin or placebo for seven weeks. Their symptoms were measured with the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) at baseline and at 11 weeks. The reduction in HAM-A score from baseline in
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Mashup Score: 5Reflecting on Forgiveness - 2 day(s) ago
I have been participating recently in a weekly group discussion with psychoanalysts. The talk generally focuses on scholarly writings of analysts, and sometimes others, who have be en reflecting on race and its place in analytic discourse. I am indebted to this group’s interest in and disciplined exploration of this intriguing arena of scholarship and clinical practice. In my case, it has meant expanding my intellectual horizons and engaging with a literature that, without explicit encouragement, I would
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Mashup Score: 1
While a series of machine learning programs did well when trained on a particular set of patient data, their ability to predict outcomes in independent samples was not impressive.
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Mashup Score: 2Canada Honors APA Member for Groundbreaking Work - 3 day(s) ago
Bruce G. Pollock, M.D., Ph.D., was among those appointed to the Order of Canada last December. He was honored for his pioneering contributions to geriatric psychopharmacology.
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A tailored, trauma-informed approach that considers military culture, the impact of service-related trauma, and the importance of camaraderie is essential to effectively care for veterans with SMI.
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The 2016 U.S. presidential election un leashed strongly felt sentiments in a way that was similar to the response to the 1964 election between then-President Lyndon Johnson and Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater. Preceding that election, 1,189 psychiatrists responded to a survey published in FACT magazine (now defunct) saying that Sen. Goldwater was psychologically unfit to be president. Without having examined the senator, some of these psychiatrists also gave a narrative explanation justifying their opinion.
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