
Welcome to the Ultimate Neuroscience Lab: Your Smartphone
Digital devices can provide better and more useful information than the typical studies conducted with U.S. college students as participants

Welcome to the Ultimate Neuroscience Lab: Your Smartphone
Digital devices can provide better and more useful information than the typical studies conducted with U.S. college students as participants

Novel Drug Therapies Could Tackle Treatment-Resistant Depression
An anesthetic, a steroid and a psychedelic are new treatments for a devastating psychiatric disorder


Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulations Guide Better Mental Health Policy
During COVID, Australia has deployed these tools to forecast the impact of economic and social policies on the country’s mental health

How Consumers and Health Care Providers Can Judge the Quality of Digital Mental Health Tools
A burgeoning industry of apps and wearables must voluntarily put in place standards to ensure its products and services are based on solid evidence for their effectiveness

A Renaissance for Psychedelics Could Fill a Long-Standing Treatment Gap for Psychiatric Disorders
Psilocybin and MDMA represent a first wave of therapies that help patients by changing the way they view reality

Adolescent Mental Health? There’s a ‘Vaccine’ for That
School-based interventions that help students regulate their emotions in healthy ways have proved effective at preventing pandemic-related issues

A New Way to Understand—and Possibly Treat—OCD
People with the disorder seem to have a more flexible “sense of self”

Critical Care Doctors Are in Crisis
Who’s caring for the ICU physicians?

At Least Two Million Children Have Lost a Parent or Grandparent Caregiver to COVID
That’s at a minimum. The real number could be significantly higher

‘Ambiguous Loss’ from Miami-Area Condo Collapse Makes Grieving Harder
In a Q&A, loss expert Pauline Boss talks about coping with extreme uncertainty in the wake of a disaster

Going Gray Isn’t Always Permanent—Stress May Play a Role
The universal marker of aging is not always a one-way process

Psychiatry Needs to Get Right with God
By not making more of an effort to incorporate spirituality in treatment, we are doing a disservice to patients