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Forbes
Mental health innovation is long overdue. With telemedicine technologies booming in the healthcare sector, mental health technology has been lagging behind. The unique nature of mental health services can make it difficult to develop technology that successfully intervenes in human behavior and actually creates measurable, positive outcomes. However, with advancing research and awareness geared toward mental health issues, more companies are innovating in this space than ever before.
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Tech Times
A Canadian woman has launched DearTrich.com, a website to help the thousands of people who suffer from trichotillomania. Tenesha Lawson battled and lived with the disorder since she was 11 years old. Lawson was diagnosed with the condition four years ago. Before that, she didn't know she was suffering from an impulse control disorder.
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RT
Chronic stress is known to have several detrimental health effects, but now scientists have added two more to the list: depression and dementia. A research review found that chronic stress damages areas of the brain associated with thinking and memory. The paper, published in the January issue of Current Opinion in Psychiatry, examined the findings of recent studies on anxiety, fear and stress in animals, as well as brain scans of stress and anxiety in humans.
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Medical Daily
Healthcare practitioners are still battling to identify and diagnose those suffering from bipolar disorder, but a new study indicates they may only need to look at those who have already been diagnosed with depression or anxiety. The study found that around 10 percent of patients in the United Kingdom who are prescribed antidepressants for depression or anxiety are also suffering from unrecognized bipolar disorder.
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Medical News Today
In 2014, approximately 15.7 million adults in the U.S. experienced at least one episode of major depression in the past year. But in a new study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry, researchers reveal how brain scans could be used to identify children at high risk for later-life depression — information that could pave the way for early intervention and prevention.
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HealthDay News
Depression can strike during the teen years, but too many U.S. teenagers with the illness are not getting proper follow-up care, a new study finds. "These results raise concerns about the quality of care for adolescent depression," concluded a team led by Briannon O'Connor, who conducted the study while at New York University School of Medicine. The research was published online Feb. 1 in JAMA Pediatrics.
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Psych Central
A new study of social anxiety and avoidant personality disorders finds that while genetics play a significant role in developing the conditions over time, environmental factors matter most in the short term. For over a decade, researchers from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health followed approximately 3,000 Norwegian twins to find out more about how mental disorders develop over time.
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HealthDay News
New findings about how the brains of soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder respond to angry faces might help improve diagnosis of the condition, researchers report. In the small study, the Canadian researchers said they found that overconnected brain circuits in soldiers with PTSD made them more attuned to angry faces than happy faces. The findings were published Jan. 20 in the journal Heliyon.
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Science Daily
Adverse experiences in early childhood, including incarceration of a parent, and physical and psychological abuse, impede on learning and behavior development as early as kindergarten, according to a new study. Published online in the journal Pediatrics, the evidence adds to data indicating that maltreatment and dysfunction within a home during early childhood puts young children at risk for poor health outcomes as adults.
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CNBC
For two decades, there's been evidence that people who suffered childhood trauma — violence, sexual abuse or family dysfunction — are much more likely to have a chronic health problems and engage in risky behavior. Now, 14 community health centers around the U.S. are acting as laboratories for an experiment to see if screening and then treating people for trauma can improve the results from treatment they get for their diabetes, heart disease, pulmonary disease or other ailments.
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