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Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. will lead research teams laying the groundwork for a domestically manufactured ibogaine product, part of an HHS effort to develop the psychedelic as a potential treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and other serious mental…

The Trump administration plans to appoint psychiatrist Daniel Amen, MD, to the National Advisory Mental Health Council, the panel that advises the National Institute of Mental Health, Science reported. Former NIMH Director Joshua Gordon, MD, PhD, a psychiatrist, criticized the…

Escitalopram (Lexapro), duloxetine (Cymbalta) and agomelatine (Thymanax) outperformed fluoxetine (Prozac) at producing lasting symptom improvement in adults with major depressive disorder, according to a meta-analysis published Nov. 10 in The Lancet Psychiatry and reported by The New York Times. Researchers…

Reps. Christian Menefee, D-Texas, and Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., introduced the Suicide Prevention for At-Risk K-12 Students Act, or SPARKS Act, on Nov. 12. The bill would help public schools adopt proven youth suicide prevention programs. The bill, HR 10991, would…

CMS will terminate Kalamazoo (Mich.) Behavioral Health Hospital’s Medicare provider agreement, effective Nov. 16, according to an Oct. 30 public notice from the agency. CMS found the hospital was not compliant with conditions for Medicare participation, specifically related to patients’…

From a 292-bed state-funded psychiatric hospital in Texas to New Mexico’s only children’s emergency psychiatric unit, hospitals and health systems are expanding behavioral health access as demand continues to grow. Here are 65 behavioral health projects to know:

California will award up to $4 million for psychedelic treatment research involving veterans. The California Initiative for Precision Medicine, part of the California Health and Human Services Agency, opened a request for applications to fund partnerships between the state’s nonprofit…

Pregnant and postpartum individuals who used a generative AI maternal health chatbot the most reported higher anxiety scores. Overall, the tool did not improve anxiety or depression, according to a University of Maryland-led randomized clinical trial published Nov. 4 in…