Opinion: Penelope, a fictional pig, taught me how to talk with my patients about their fractured sleep
“How is your sleep?” I’ve posed this question to hundreds of patients. Read the rest……
Category: mental health
As mental health tech heats up, startups in the space are making more exits
You’re reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is…
STAT+: Strong evidence is becoming a business imperative for mental health tech startups
As smartphone apps that treat mental health conditions become more common, the companies making them…
Clearing Clutter Can Benefit Your Mental Health
Do you have more possessions than storage space? Is your basement or attic filled with…
We wish we’d written that: STAT staffers share their favorite stories of 2021
All through 2021, journalists around the globe have captivated and inspired our staff at STAT….
Opinion: Deaths of despair: the unrecognized tragedy of working class immiseration
Given the socioeconomic effects of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, it should have come as no…
STAT+: Three missing pieces the digital therapeutics sector needs to succeed in 2022
Smartphone apps aren’t a default way of managing diabetes — not yet, anyway. Though telehealth…
Opinion: Managing mental health tech’s blitzscaling blind spots
Pro basketball player Giannis Antetokounmpo told GQ magazine last month that he and most of…
Opinion: I work in a locked psychiatric ward. These days, you do too
At parties, I used to explain to people who wanted to know what I do…
Opinion: Listen: Looking back on the first year of ‘First Opinion Podcast’
We started the “First Opinion Podcast” in February 2021 because we knew there was rich,…
What Anger Is Trying to Tell You
At its core, anger serves an important purpose. It signals a threat and demands a…
Opinion: Health care workers’ suffering goes far beyond burnout. Self-care isn’t the cure
We survived the pandemic’s early days with purpose-fueled adrenaline. Working in the epicenter of the…
Opinion: Listen: A parent on advocating for people with autism who can’t advocate for themselves
Alison Singer learned how to advocate for a child with autism by watching her mother…
Opinion: Many states aren’t ready for a 988 crisis line. The deadline is looming
America’s fragile mental health safety net all too often leaves people nowhere to turn but…
As a Logic song topped the charts, helpline saw more calls and fewer suicides
During the time that a song whose title is the number of a national suicide…
Opinion: Gatekeepers need to tame ‘Wild West’ of mental health and other digital health therapeutics
From individuals to employers, there’s growing interest in using digital services to help people work…
A decade without data: Eating disorder researchers say a gap in CDC survey has left them flying blind
Eating disorders among youth have been on the rise since the pandemic started — adolescent…
STAT+: STAT+ Conversation: The ‘Shroom Boom’
Editor’s note: A livestream of the conversation will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET. Every…
Opinion: Stopping the spread of mass hysteria by Facebook, other social media platforms
How are angry mobs storming the Capitol and Facebook driving our daughters to bulimia related?…
Opinion: Labels can harm, but they also can help: See ‘profound autism’
Labels are a divisive subject. When used inappropriately, they have the power to misrepresent and…
STAT+: The pandemic forced an experiment in delivering intensive mental health care from home. Will the approach stick?
When the pandemic lockdowns slammed society’s doors closed in March 2020, the leaders at McLean…
Opinion: The pandemic has deeply affected many people with eating disorders
Many Americans are becoming accustomed to discussing how pandemic-related lockdowns and remote engagement have changed…
Talkspace’s leadership exodus leaves behind pressing questions — and a pile of cash
Talkspace, the teletherapy app that went public in a splashy SPAC merger earlier this year,…
Opinion: Why is the CDC missing in action on severe mental illnesses?
In October, the CDC updated its list of medical conditions that contribute to worse outcomes…
Ask The Doctor: December 2021
Is it true that men and women exhibit different signs of depression? Although women suffer…
Is Therapy Appropriate As Cognition Declines?
Cognitive decline is often accompanied by mood disorders, such as anxiety and depression, as well…
Is It Normal Forgetfulness or Something More Serious?
We toss them off with a laugh as “senior moments,” but those memory lapses that…
A telehealth effort to treat PTSD and bipolar disorder in rural areas showed ‘huge gains.’ Now comes the hard part
A multiyear effort to pipe big-city mental health providers to rural communities over video accomplished…
Opinion: The pandemic didn’t increase suicides. That shouldn’t be a surprise
In the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, mental health experts and members of the…
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Listen: Moderna v. NIH, psilocybin as a medicine, & the cultural intake of pharma CEOs
Who invented Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine? Can psychedelic medicines be mainstream? And who’s going to run…
Largest psilocybin trial finds the psychedelic is effective in treating serious depression
Eagerly awaited results of the largest-ever study of psilocybin were announced Tuesday, with Compass Pathways…
Opinion: Preventing market failure in brain health: Moving toward fixes in investment, operations, and governance
The world is in the midst an escalating global crisis of brain health, by which…
Opinion: Time, facial feminization, and the transgender experience
Time, a precious commodity for all of us, poses extra challenges for transgender people. Every…
Opinion: Hyperthymia: a mental illness that helped me for years — until it didn’t
From my teenage years on, I benefitted from what I thought was a positive personality:…
Opinion: A new index measures the extent and depth of addiction stigma
“I finally build up the courage to tell the doctor I need help. Staring at…
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Latest psilocybin patent highlights the swirling battle over psychedelics intellectual property
One of the leading companies racing to develop psychedelics as legal medicines was granted a…
Build Strength and Power at Any Age
Sarcopenia, also known as age-related muscle loss, is a natural part of the aging process…
Opinion: Rebuilding the nation’s health care workforce during and after Covid-19: Lessons from disaster management
As an emergency medicine physician and director of emergency management, I have taken part in…
STAT+: Buoyed by its popular weight loss app, Noom enters the crowded field of digital mental health
Five months ago, weight loss company Noom announced $540 million in funding, dwarfing its previous…
Opinion: Applying HIPAA would help Facebook transform mental health for good
Facebook and other social media companies have accurate information about the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors…
STAT+: Big Health scores a novel deal to bring its digital therapeutics to an entire country
Part of the allure of software-based medical treatments is the possibility of reaching people in…
Rates of depression and anxiety climbed across the globe in 2020, analysis finds
Rates of depression and anxiety climbed globally by more than 25% in 2020, a devastating…
STAT+: Backed with $500 million, a startup aims to rethink psychiatric drug development
For more than a decade, psychiatry has been a graveyard for new medicines. While in…
Opinion: Covid-19 keeps delivering lessons about health care worker burnout. Will we learn them?
With the authorizations for several effective vaccines against Covid-19 and a strong vaccination program in…
Opinion: The AMA needs to declare a national mental health emergency
As the pandemic continues to disrupt life across the U.S., a staggering number of Americans…
Can Your Diet be Too Clean?
We’ve all heard the term “clean eating,” and how it’s supposed to give us picture-perfect…
In research first, jolts from a customized brain implant provided immediate relief to a severely depressed patient, scientists say
When Sarah, 36 years old and severely depressed, sat down in a lab with a…
Opinion: I fear Covid-19 is pushing young physicians out of medicine
During more than 30 years as a physician and an officer in the U.S. Air…
STAT+: The ‘Great Resignation’ could be health tech’s next big sales pitch
Innovative health companies hoping to boost sales are playing into one of the biggest fears…
Saying ‘person with schizophrenia,’ not ‘schizophrenic,’ can affect clinician beliefs, study finds
Mental health counselors had kinder and less authoritative reactions to statements that used the phrase…