POC-Focused Telehealth Addresses Health Inequities

Eating disorder prevalence is on the rise. One of the challenges ahead is earlier diagnosis.

Parents surveyed by insurer Cigna share their perspective on what needs to be improved in treatment of their kids…

Taking care of aging parents is difficult given the range of issues from dementia to vertigo to vision and correlated mental health decline for both seniors and caregivers, but technology advances are helping.

The media has long been attributed to glorifying diet culture and eating disorders, but in the age of COVID and the rise in social media consumption, potentially harmful or triggering content is growing without control.

Social media addiction and the brain.

A recent study reveals that children on the autism spectrum with severe sleep difficulties have behavioral regulation difficulties that impair their executive function.

Opioid deaths are on track to break another record in 2021 — with the CDC reporting a nearly 30% increase in overdose deaths in 2020 — but a non-invasive treatment to manage withdrawal symptoms offers some hope.

For highly complex patients there are often multiple periods or episodes where PT or OT is needed, but unless the therapy team can show medical need, insurers won’t approve. One agency is trying to address the issue.

In Colorado, a lack of behavioral health resources are dire as health officials are responding to around four child suicides a week and Children’s Hospital Colorado is sending kids out-of-state for treatment.

Recent alarming data from the largest survey of transgender and nonbinary youth say that more than half seriously considered suicide, according to the Trevor Project. But there are solutions.

After over a year of pandemic stress and comfort foods, many people are now looking to an emerging field of research called “nutritional psychiatry” which looks at the relationship between mental health and diet.

Despite reports of big jumps in anxiety medication scripts, alcohol treatment admits, crisis center waitlists and suicide attempts, actual mental health diagnosis was down among children and older adults in 2020 vs. the prior year.

Researchers say it’s probable but might be too early to tell if COVID-19 can increase the risk of getting dementia.

Up to one third of patients who survived Covid have been diagnosed with a psychiatric condition. Researchers found that patients requiring ICU level care were diagnosed within 6 months of getting Covid.

According to a Mayo Clinic study, mental health effects from the pandemic include significant changes in mental well-being and substance abuse among young adults.

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States or 18% of the population especially young adults, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, but it is often misunderstood.

As a respiratory virus, COVID-19 predominately targets the lungs and kidneys but a new study is offering evidence that the virus also invades brain cells and about half of patients report neurological symptoms, including headaches, confusion and delirium.

COVID has proven to be alarming for scientists and researchers who are rushing to find answers so much so that 40% of nearly 4,000 STEM Ph.D. students at the University of Minnesota reported symptoms consistent with generalized anxiety disorder and 37% with major depressive disorder, numbers as much as 19% higher compared with 2019.

The company created a 24/7 text and chat service and an international social network called TrevorSpace, using hospital admission data and Facebook text and video posts as part of an algorithm to predict and prevent suicide.