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Hundreds of Chinese apps have popped up promising to provide support or healing through chatbots, virtual reality or other newfangled technologies.

Experts say AI is set to grow rapidly in psychiatry and therapy, allowing doctors to spot mental illness earlier and improve care. But are the technologies effective – and ethical?

When your therapist is a bot, you can reach it at 2 a.m. But will it really understand your problems?

May 12, 2021 Internet- and smartphone-based care helped with pediatric OCD, depression in adults Mental health interventions delivered online or via a smartphone showed promise for treating kids with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and adults with depressive symptoms as well as comorbid hypertension or diabetes, researchers reported. In a non-inferiority trial of participants with a mean age 13.4 years, the six-month Children’s Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (CY-BOCS) score was 11....

email article For kids and adolescents, internet-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (ICBT) helped treat social anxiety disorder more successfully -- and more cost-effectively -- than internet-delivered supportive therapy (ISUPPORT), a Swedish, single-masked randomized trial found. At baseline, youths ages 10 to 17 had a mean Clinician Severity Rating (CSR) score of 5.06 in the ICBT group and 4.94 in the ISUPPORT group. At 3-month follow-up, the groups had mean scores of 3.96 and 4...

The Mental Health App Marketplace is a Mess, Researchers Find Harvard psychiatrists perform a comprehensive analysis of the mental health apps marketplace and find misinformation. 19 The issues commonly associated with mental health apps are made worse by misleading app marketplace metrics. In response, a team of Harvard psychiatrists led by John Torous has created an assessment framework and a public database of hundreds of apps to extend previous research into apps’ limited functionality a...

Open Mind Health Launches Innovative and Customized Wellness Tracks, Significantly Raising the Quality Bar in Mental Telehealth News provided by Share this article OMH launches the first mental telehealth practice utilizing personalized and holistic wellness tracks.  The company was founded by Dr. Craig Beach, a clinical and forensic psychiatrist who, over 20 years, has accumulated a wealth of experience identifying mental wellness approaches that work.  As Dr. Beach states, "Mental health...

How a year of living online has changed us Image: bob al-greene / mashable 2021-03-11 16:15:07 UTC Imagine a household where everyone logged on to the internet in the morning and spent the rest of the day online. Four hours on Zoom or FaceTime. Three hours browsing the web. Three hours scrolling through Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Three hours gaming. Four hours streaming HD Netflix. Imagine they did this every day of the month.  It seems impossible that so many people sit in front of ...

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Who’s Got Your Health Data? © (Getty Images) Back view of unrecognizable senior woman using smartphone by sea pier Have you ever bought something online and then had ads for that same item annoy you across the internet for weeks? Creepy, right? What if your doctor discovered you had high blood pressure, and then promos for anti-hypertension medication started popping up everywhere? That would be really creepy (and possibly illegal), but its technologically feasible. Thanks to digital deve...