Concerns rise over unregulated mental health apps, experts push for FDA oversight

Leading worldwide expert and UC Berkeley bioethics professor Jodi Halpern is concerned about the wild west aspect of apps which have no oversight. Last year, the co-founder of Koko revealed the ... Read More

Your Health: Concerns surrounding mental health apps

Each year, one in five Americans will experience some form of mental health illness. And while the need for help is clear, many don’t seek ... It doesn’t surprise me that all these mental health apps ... Read More

You Can Now Treat Depression With an App

The app, called Rejoyn, is cleared as a supplement to currently approved therapies and works by using specifically designed tasks on a smartphone app to rewire neural signals. The idea is to tap into ... Read More

This app has gamified improving your emotional intelligence

Kai Koch, co-founder of Ahead, shares how the app could be a vital part of businesses' mental health offerings. Read More

Mental Health Research News

Researchers discovered that in some areas of the brain neuron ... Mental Health App Could Help Prevent Depression in Young People at High Risk Oct. 8, 2024 — A cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT ... Read More

‘Educational’ apps are worth billions. We need to make sure they work

Partnerships between developers and researchers could help to improve the quality of educational apps and other technologies. Read More

Medical Minute: The Rise Of AI Therapy And Its Implications For Mental Health

Each year, one in five Americans will experience some form of mental health ... help you with that. Dial 911,’” she explained. Headlines were made last year when a man in Belgium using the app ... Read More

5 Apps For Mental Wellness And Mind Mapping

Users can access a range of content aimed at improving mental clarity, emotional balance, and overall health ... The Stoic Way is an innovative app designed to help users embrace stoic philosophy ... Read More

App finds teens in need of mental health help

DMH director Dr Kittisak Aksornwong said yesterday that 503,884 teenagers aged 18 and under registered on its Mental Health Check-in application from Feb 12, 2022, to Oct 14 this year. The app is ... Read More

Our conversations about mental health: helpful or harmful?

Foulkes and fellow academic psychologist Jack Andrews write in the academic journal “New Ideas in Psychology” that when people “interpret and report milder forms of distress as mental health problems. Read More

Mental Health News

Oct. 10, 2024 — A new study has shed light on why some children and adolescents develop mental health disorders like PTSD, anxiety, or depression after experiencing ... Good Physical Fitness ... Read More

Mental health

"It's statistically proven that, if your spouse dies, you are more likely to die in that year," cardiologist Sian Harding told Newsweek. "The last four years have been a roller coaster of emotions ... Read More