The New York Times would like to hear from parents and adolescents who are dealing with mental health challenges. The adolescent experience is changing. Over the last decade, anxiety and depression — along with self-harm and suicidal thoughts — have been on the rise among young people. We’d like to …
Read More »Here Is How Women Can Slow Mental Decline
Photo by Darren Baker / Shutterstock.com Take a job earlier in life if you are a woman who wants to keep cognitive decline at bay in your later years. A new study finds that women who work during early adulthood and midlife have slower rates of memory decline later in …
Read More »How Modern Health uses AWS to secure participant data and scale its enterprise mental health platform
How open banking is driving huge innovation Learn how fintechs and forward-thinking FIs are accelerating personalized financial products through data-rich APIs. Register Now Enterprise mental health care platform Modern Health has been architected in AWS since its launch in 2017, and now it is using the cloud platform to handle …
Read More »A New Tool in Treating Mental Illness: Building Design
Research into the health effects of natural and man-made surroundings is spurring the development of psychiatric facilities that feel more residential and welcoming. Residents of the Taube Pavilion in Mountain View, Calif., wake up in private rooms with views of the wooded Santa Cruz Mountains, have breakfast in airy communal …
Read More »We Compare 5 Top Rated Mental Health Apps Available To M’sians Who Prefer Online Therapy
The pandemic has led to more people seeking out online services, mental health services included. Hence, I decided to review some of the top mental health apps on App Store and Google Play to compare their features, and which one worked best for me. To start, I typed in “therapy” …
Read More »China Long Avoided Talking About Mental Health. Then Covid Hit.
The government has deployed extensive resources to address the spike in depression and anxiety. But social stigmas and long-term challenges remain. China’s fight against the coronavirus was mostly over, but Zhang Xiaochun, a doctor in Wuhan, was sinking into depression, convinced she had failed as a daughter and mother. She …
Read More »Streamloots Strong will provide mental health support for the streaming community
The cutting-edge computer architecture that’s changing the AI game Learn about the next-gen architecture needed to unlock the true capabilities of AI and machine learning. Register here Streamloots raised money in November to enable influencers to better monetize their audiences, and now it is launching a mental health support program …
Read More »A Rare Pandemic Silver Lining: Mental Health Start-Ups
Using teletherapy, metrics and matching algorithms, entrepreneurs are focusing on addressing aspects of the mental health care system that they view as broken. Ariela Safira was on a mission. Shaken by the attempted suicide of a friend during her freshman year at Stanford University in 2013, Ms. Safira sought to …
Read More »This S’porean Had Only S$16 In Her Bank Once, Now Owns A Silent Tea Bar For Mental Wellness
[Article has been updated on 24 October 2020, 1:30pm] 14 years ago, Anthea Indira Ong, founder of Hush TeaBar, found herself in a state of hopelessness and despair. In an interview with Vulcan Post, Anthea described the situation she was in at that time as a “whole series of collateral …
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