A study published today in the American Journal of Psychiatry is the first to find that immune cells are more active in the brains of people at risk of schizophrenia as well as those already diagnosed with the disease.
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Using lived experience in mental health care | Martin Webber's blog
There is increasing recognition of the value of lived experience and the important contribution people with personal experience of mental health issues can make to mental health care. Peer workers already exist in a number …
Student Whose Army Dad Has PTSD Creates App to Help Vets …
A college student whose soldier dad was having trouble sleeping after experiencing combat and his friends are helping veterans with a new app that tracks their sleep. Macalester College senior Tyler Skluzacek and his team …
Local Coalition Wants Better Treatment For Inmates With Mental …
SEBASTIAN COUNTY (KFSM) — The Sebastian County Sheriff Bill Hollenbeck, other local county sheriff's and CEOs of community health facilities have formed a coalition to implement a stabilization center. The stabilization …
Can Horrifying Virtual Reality Simulations Cause Real PTSD?
We know that virtual reality is being used as therapy to treat PTSD (as here, depicted above), but Doug Magyari, who's spent two decades working on VR simulations for US military agencies, raises a disturbing thought: …