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Though they remain in high demand, state-funded services that prevent overdoses and mental health crises may be cut as Maryland contends with a budget crunch. Advocates say this puts some programs at risks that have been helpful in preventing behavioral health emergencies, including drug-related deaths, a declining but profound problem for the state.
Ben Ingraham wanted to be a doctor. He planned to attend medical school after serving as a U.S. Navy corpsman, but his time in the military was unexpectedly cut short. A traumatic brain injury and a leg injury forced him to medically retire.
Faced with the fact that many AI users treat their chatbots as life coaches, counselors, and therapists, developers of the biggest and best-known large language models now employ psychologists and psychiatrists as "safety experts" to guide the training of new models in these nuanced and high-risk contexts.
Mental illness is a leading cause of global disability, underscoring the urgent need for scalable, data-driven approaches to early identification and intervention. Passive sensing technologies in mobile and wearable devices enable continuous and unobtrusive measurement of behavioral and physiological signals that may be relevant to mental health.
People who feel lonely are much more likely to experience poorer mental health and lower well-being, a new collaborative study led by the University of Bristol, Nesta and Amsterdam UMC has found. Loneliness was also found to be linked with worse general health, including experiencing multiple health conditions.
A new study examining the impact of depression on all five senses could significantly improve how the condition is diagnosed and treated, opening the door to more targeted solutions for patients. Led by the University of New England's Professor of Neuroscience, Christopher Sharpley, alongside colleagues Dr. Lorenzo Odierna, Professor Vicki Bitsika, and Christopher Watson, the first-of-its-kind study highlights how depression is more than just a cognitive-emotional disorder.
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