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The Idaho Senate recently passed a bill to restore Medicaid mental health treatment programs that the state cut to comply with the governor's order for budget cuts. In less than three months since an Idaho Medicaid contractor cut a mobile treatment program for people with severe mental illness, four patients died, the Idaho Capital Sun reported.
As wildfires spread across western Nebraska, burning over 800,000 acres of land, Nebraska's Department of Health and Human Services and local partners are reminding Nebraskans that mental health resources are available.
Eleanor Middlin was 15 when her family sent her to a Missouri boarding school, an 11-hour drive from her mid-Michigan home. It was the worst thing that ever happened to her. It also saved her life. "I'm alive because of it, and I will never be able to forget it," Middlin, now 20, told Bridge Michigan.
Rosa Rivas was furious, but not surprised, when Monterey County, California, supervisors recently voted to halt planning for a multimillion-dollar mental health center project in Salinas. Rivas was angry for her family, which has struggled to support her 35-year-old daughter who was diagnosed with schizophrenia 15 years ago.
NFL owners have approved a proposal to expand behavioral and mental health services offerings to players. Teams must now employ a full-time mental health clinician who operates out of each facility. In 2019, the NFL instituted a mandate that all teams employ a part-time behavioral and mental health clinician.
Systemic metabolic abnormalities including insulin resistance, lipid dysregulation, mitochondrial dysfunction and inflammation are highly prevalent in psychiatric illness and may contribute to increased mortality, illness severity and treatment resistance. This Review synthesizes current evidence linking systemic and central metabolic dysfunction with mental health outcomes across disorders.
In a split second, the brain determines whether an ambiguous situation is good or bad — and those snap judgments can reveal important information about a person. A new article by Husker psychologist Maital Neta suggests that these responses, known as valence bias, could help identify risk factors for depression, anxiety and other stress-related conditions, and unlock secrets about how the brain works.
Researchers at City St George's, University of London have found that psychological interventions for self-harm appear to be more effective for females than males, raising concerns about how well current treatments meet the needs of men at high risk of suicide. In a systematic review and meta-analysis published in The Lancet Regional Health — Europe, the team analyzed 46 randomized controlled trials involving over 15,000 participants.
In an effort to increase access to evidence-based interventions to help manage anxiety and depression, Mass General Brigham investigators have developed and tested a novel digital intervention called HabitWorks. HabitWorks is a smartphone app that uses personalized exercises to target interpretation bias, or the mental habit of jumping to negative conclusions in uncertain situations.
Human minds often wander. Whether we're busy at work, doing chores or exercising, our thoughts frequently shift away from the task at hand. These spontaneous thoughts sometimes turn toward sensations in the body, such as our heartbeat or breath, and that could affect our immediate emotional state and long-term mental health, researchers report March 25 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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