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The Louisiana Legislature is on the verge of approving state support for clinical studies on psychedelic drugs used to treat mental health and substance abuse disorders. Senate Bill 43, sponsored by Sen. Patrick McMath, R-Mandeville, would create a state health initiative for studies on ibogaine, psilocybin, MDMA (also known as "Molly") and other psychedelic drugs once considered to have no medical value and strictly banned.
Shaman Perskin was an adventurous kid, his father Spencer Perskin remembers. "We had a lot of nicks and knacks and trips to the hospital. He was really playful." He was a baker at numerous restaurants and for family gatherings, and was a very caring person, Spencer Perskin said. He said that during the pandemic, Shaman Perskin "made sure we had food and water."
When people experiencing a mental health crisis arrive at emergency rooms in western Iowa, they can spend hours — sometimes days — waiting for psychiatric treatment because there simply are not enough beds available. A new facility opening soon in Council Bluffs hopes to change that.
Nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide had mental disorders in 2023, reflecting a 95.5% increase since 1990, a new study has found. The largest increases were in anxiety and depression, which were also the most common disorders in 2023.
Most years, when thousands of psychiatrists gather for the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, they walk past a scattering of protesters. There are Scientologists with megaphones; Falun Gong groups doing their exercises; and, often, former patients, saying they have been harmed by medications or electroconvulsive therapy.
As AI technology continues to develop, more people are using it to seek mental health care. Multiple studies have shown that general-purpose large language models (LLMs) or chatbots can miss signs of suicidal ideation, fail to recognize or appropriately address mental health crises, and sometimes deliver harmful responses to those seeking mental health care.
A study of insurance claims for 1.8 million children found that the number of families raising mental health issues at visits to general practitioners rose sharply over a decade, with anxiety by far the fastest-growing complaint. The study, which was published in the journal JAMA Network Open, found that the number of pediatric visits rose to 9.7% in 2023 from 5.7% in 2014.
Mental health is a common topic in conversations about health and wellness in the United States. In fact, Americans are nearly as likely to say they are putting a lot of effort into taking care of their mental health as they are to say the same about their physical health. As the nation marks Mental Health Awareness Month, here's a look at how Americans describe their mental health and who they feel comfortable talking to about it, based on Pew Research Center surveys.
As the global burden of mental illness continues to grow, the limitations of a trial-and-error approach to treatment have become increasingly clear. Mental health care is entering a new era: in contrast to the previous reliance on symptom-based averages, advances in measuring brain circuit function now enable prospectively stratified, circuit-informed care that identifies biologically grounded subtypes and guides the selection of more targeted treatments — including pharmacological, psychotherapeutic and neuromodulatory approaches.
Decades ago, computer scientists set out to make programs modeled on the human brain. But now, some of the products based on that approach may be harming the brains of the humans who use them, according to a panel of University of Michigan experts.
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