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Internet Consumption: Mental Health Safety in the Social Media Era

A frequent use of social media can lead to mental health issues including anxiety, loneliness and depression.

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Mental Healthcare and Climate Change in Small Island Developing States

Mental Healthcare and Climate Change in Small Island Developing States

Tonga, Fiji, Seychelles, Barbados, Suriname, Palau and 52 others are part of the Small Island Developing Nations {SIDS}, a “group of low-lying island nations across 3 geographical divisions”.

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NIMH, Thoughts Relay Neuroscience and Psychiatry

In an interview with NPR, on his book, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health, the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health {NIMH}, Dr. Thomas Insel, made a striking comment “I was doing a talk to a large group of family members in 2015. I was showing them the spectacular success we had had with stem cell studies of neurons in schizophrenia — what we were able to do for mapping specific genetic variants for autism, how we had created great models on the epigenetics of stress and depression. And somebody got up at the back of the room and said, ‘You know, I have a 23-year-old son with schizophrenia. He’s been hospitalized five times. He’s been in jail three times. He made two suicide attempts. Look, man, you know, our house is on fire and you’re talking about the chemistry of the paint.’”

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Consciousness, Psychedelics, Mental Health and Thought Neuroimaging

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Psychedelics are psychoactive substances that can have an effect on consciousness.

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The Role of Fintech, Insurtech and Edtech in Mental Healthcare

The Role of Fintech, Insurtech and Edtech in Mental Healthcare

Financial technology [fintech], insurance technology [insurtech] and education technology [edtech] are disrupting mental healthcare.

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