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The New York State Office of Mental Health recently announced that $6 million will be made available for communities to create health-led behavioral health crisis response teams.
North Carolina lawmakers are now taking a closer look at how people with mental health issues can be involuntarily committed for treatment in the wake of a new law they passed — in September. Lawmakers created Iryna's Law in response to the fatal stabbing in August of Ukrainian immigrant Iryna Zarutska on a light rail train in Charlotte.
The state of Michigan has started recruiting businesses for a new pilot program aimed at improving workplace mental health. The four-month program is called LEADS, an acronym for "Learn, Educate, Act, Deploy, Study."
For the first time, University of Houston researchers have mapped Houston's "mental health deserts," revealing inequities in access to care across the city. The study, published Oct. 15 in Frontiers of Public Health, highlights the uneven distribution of mental health professionals and calls for targeted interventions and policy solutions.
Large language models can help improve questionnaires used to diagnose mental illness by optimizing symptom generalizability and reducing redundancy. They can even contribute to new conceptualizations of mental disorders. That is the result of an international study led by Professor Dr. Joseph Kambeitz and Professor Dr. Kai Vogeley from the University of Cologne's Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne.
Historical efforts to deinstitutionalize those experiencing mental illness in the USA have inadvertently positioned police officers as the typical first responders to emergency calls involving mental health crises and empower them to initiate involuntary psychiatric detentions.
Mental health and substance use (MHSU) visits are common among physicians and increased substantially during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a research letter published online Nov. 18 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Maya A. Gibb, M.P.H., from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Ontario, Canada, and colleagues examined temporal patterns in MHSU-related health care visits among 29,662 physicians.
An international study — the largest of its kind — has uncovered similar structural changes in the brains of young people diagnosed with anxiety disorders, depression, ADHD and conduct disorder, offering new insights into the biological roots of mental health conditions in children and young people.
A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal JMIR Mental Health by JMIR Publications highlights a critical risk in the growing use of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4o by researchers: the frequent fabrication and inaccuracy of bibliographic citations. The findings underscore an urgent need for rigorous human verification and institutional safeguards to protect research integrity, particularly in specialized and less publicly known fields within mental health.
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