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In Milwaukee, a 29-year-old woman was charged with her mother's murder after police responded to a call and found Carrie Zettel dead in her backyard last month. The tragedy followed escalating encounters with police where Zettel's daughter, Lauren Spors, exhibited troubling behavior indicating she was experiencing a mental health crisis.
Sixty percent of the nearly 7,000 inmates at Rikers Island in October required mental health services, up from 42% in a 2016, according to a new report from the Data Collaborative for Justice at John Jay College and the Katal Center for Equity, Health and Justice.
Dialing down the use of social media for a week reduced symptoms of anxiety, depression and insomnia in young adults, according to a study published recently in the journal JAMA Network Open. Researchers followed 295 volunteers, ages 18 to 24, who opted to take a break from social media.
Five patients sued state health officials over a contractor's plans to cut critical Idaho Medicaid services for people with severe mental illness. The lawsuit is the second the state has faced that attempts to stop Magellan of Idaho's plans to cut specialized mobile teams that treat patients with severe mental illness who have struggled in routine settings.
A new Knoxville, Tennessee, mental health hospital might be a long way away, but state funding could be coming to serve 30 inpatients in need of care. The Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services wants Gov. Bill Lee to include $20 million to expand services at the Helen Ross McNabb Center's EmPATH Unit in his next budget.
Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat know exactly how addictive their platforms can be to teens. And they continue to target teen users anyway. Those are allegations a group of school districts is making in a lawsuit against the social media giants, according to a newly unsealed legal filing that quotes the companies' own internal documents.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released new guidance on policy and strategic actions to protect and promote mental health across government sectors, marking a major step toward a "mental health in all policies" approach. The guidance sets out, for the first time, what different government sectors can do, individually and collaboratively, to promote and protect population-wide mental health and well-being.
An OpenAI safety research leader who helped shape ChatGPT's responses to users experiencing mental health crises announced her departure from the company internally last month, WIRED has learned. Andrea Vallone, the head of a safety research team known as model policy, is slated to leave OpenAI at the end of the year.
Nearly half of Americans are affected by cardiovascular disease, while about one in four lives with a mental health condition. A newly released report from Emory University points to a deeper connection between these two growing health challenges.
Patients with major depressive disorder, including those who have not responded to first-line antidepressants, may benefit from short-term nitrous oxide treatment, a major meta-analysis led by the University of Birmingham has found. The paper published in eBioMedicine has assessed the best available clinical information to show how clinically administered nitrous oxide (N2O) can offer fast-acting depressive symptom relief for adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) and treatment-resistant depression (TRD).
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