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A national survey of behavioral healthcare providers suggests the telehealth services that organizations have put into place in response to COVID-19 are going to become a fixture post-pandemic as well.

Nearly 24% of US adults have a lifetime history of major depressive episodes, a prevalence much higher than the 14% who self-report them, researchers reported in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Long-term vitamin D supplementation does not protect against depression in the general adult population, according to a large, randomized clinical trial published in JAMA.

In this video, Psych Congress 2020 cochair Charles Raison, MD, discusses the relationship between inflammation and mental illnesses, and misconceptions about the connection between the two.

Heroes Health, a new initiative from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and UNC Health, supports the mental health of first responders and healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A text-messaging intervention appears a safe, feasible, and clinically promising way to augment care for patients with serious mental illness, according to a pilot study published online in Psychiatric Services. 

Mydecine Innovations Group announced that its subsidiary Mindleap Health is expanding its digital therapeutic offerings with three new programs. Mindleap is a digital health platform that combines telehealth services with mood, emotion and habit tracking. Its three new programs for addiction…

Most stories about U.S. healthcare today note that we endure far greater costs with inferior results compared to other advanced countries. Costs have been escalating for decades, but in recent years no discussion of cost is complete without addressing the concept of value-based financing. Yet this…

Discovery Behavioral Health, an organization with more than 100 mental health, substance use and eating disorder treatment centers in the U.S., announced that it has opened two mental health programs for adolescents about 15 miles west of Washington, D.C. The two new programs, which will operate…