Psychiatrists at Duke University in Durham, N.C., spoke recently on the mental health crisis among adolescents, one calling it "unlike anything [he's] experienced."
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New York City will spend $10.8 million to expand its free mental health helpline, NYC Well, Mayor Eric Adams said this week.
Levi Van Dyke, senior director of Volunteers of America Western Washington's 988 crisis contact centers, discussed the national suicide prevention lifeline's recent transition to a three digit number with Becker's July 19.
Wysa, an artificial intelligence digital mental health platform, nabbed $20 million in funding, the company said July 18.
UW Medicine is planning to build a 184,000-square-foot behavioral health teaching facility in Seattle that will also offer behavioral health treatment, local real estate news site the Registry reported July 21.
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National behavioral healthcare group Discovery Behavioral Health acquired 12 Anew Era TMS & psychiatry centers in California and Texas in July.
The American Psychiatric Association's yearly poll asked adult employees about their workplace experiences, including questions about mental health support from their employers, their satisfaction with their salaries and work-related stressors.
Six noteworthy behavioral health investments announced since July 6:
New York City's Metropolitan Hospital psychiatric staff members are quitting, citing an understaffed environment incapable of accommodating patient needs and incidents that have left staff injured, local news source Gothamist reported July 19.
Despite the widespread theory that an imbalance of serotonin levels in the brain causes depression, there is no convincing evidence that depression is associated with, or caused by, lower serotonin concentrations or activity, a study published July 20 in Molecular…