The NHS Confederation–the membership organisation for healthcare providers in England, Wales and Northern Ireland– has just released a quite comprehensite 45-page whitepaper titl… Read More
Monday is Blog Carnivals Day. A Blog Carnival 141 is a collection of articles or blog posts relating to a similar subject gathered together for viewing pleasure. You can quickly and con… Read More
Concern as a third of NHS mental health treatments shift online (The Guardian):
An Observer analysis of data from private providers, cross-checked against NHS figures, reveals around one in… Read More
Monday is Blog Carnivals Day. A Fitness Blog Carnival 26 is a collection of articles or blog posts relating to a similar subject gathered together for viewing pleasure. You can quickly… Read More
Monday Blog Carnival
Monday is Blog Carnival Day. A Blog Carnival is basically a collection of articles or blog posts, all relating to a similar subject, that are gathered together for… Read More
Online depression therapy given go-ahead in England (BBC News):
Nine online talking-therapy treatments for anxiety or depression have been given the green light to be used by the NHS in Engl… Read More
Digital Therapy for Insomnia More Effective Than Sleep Education, Study Finds (American Journal of Managed Care):
A smartphone-based, Chinese culture–adapted digital cognitive beh… Read More
Source: Google FinancePear Therapeutics exploring sale, other ‘strategic alternatives’ (MobiHealth News):
Prescription digital therapeutics company Pear Therapeutics is exploring… Read More
As you go through life, your brain undergoes extraordinary development. Your brain is the most adaptable, modifiable organ in your body, and it can change both positively and negatively by h… Read More
FDA acknowledges shortcomings of Pre-Cert pilot in report (Regulatory Focus):
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it needs additional Congressional authority to move forward with… Read More
Mental health funding of £1.8m welcomed by MHRA and NICE to explore regulation of digital mental health tools (gov.uk):
There has been a large increase in the number of digital mental… Read More
Wysa raises $20 million to expand its therapist chatbot into a wider set of mental health services (TechCrunch):
Wysa, a popular mental health app originally founded in India around an AI ch… Read More
AI Behavior Health Chatbot App Fast-Tracked by FDA (Psychology Today):
Recently the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted breakthrough device designation to Wysa’s AI-based d… Read More
Can digital therapeutics become profitable? (MedTechDive):
In 2020, the Food and Drug Administration cleared Akili Interactive’s video game to improve attention in kids with ADHD. It w… Read More
Epitel raises $12.5M for wearable seizure detection system (MobiHealth News):
Epitel, maker of a wearable electroencephalogram (EEG) system for seizure detection, announced Wednesday it had… Read More
It’s one of the first things parents and teachers tell a child who gets upset: “Take a deep breath.” But research into the effect of deep breathing on the body’s stre… Read More
Dr. Awais Aftab: What do you think the future of psychotherapy is? What would you like it to be?
Dr. Judith Beck: A number of years ago, a colleague asked my dad whether he expected cognitiv… Read More
These excellent tips are kindly shared by RK Sharma and HL Ogle, two medical students at the University of Exeter, aiming to clear up many of the inaccurate assumptions of how difficult publ… Read More
Wysa’s AI-Guided Mental Health Platform Closes $5.5M Series A to Bridge the Gap in Employee Mental Health (press release):
“Wysa, the leading global AI-powered mental health plat… Read More
Brain Awareness Week 2021 takes place next month. Why not start celebrating now by challenging our minds and discussing the latest about lifelong neuroplasticity?
Here’s a selection of… Read More