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The dopamine pathways critical to addiction and are also critical to certain social attachments (eg monogamy) And much of what we “want” may be outside…
Feb 15CommentShare
TLDR; Digital mental health tools are not working in the real-world mostly due to adherence. We need to rethink our approach and design tools patients …
Dec 3, 2020CommentShare
TLDR; We need to "close the gap" between mental health needs and what we can treat. To do this we need to focus on incorporating modern brain science a…
Nov 14, 2020CommentShare
TLDR; Mental health is a public health problem and current institutions are not enough. Tech can "close the unconscionable gap between what we know and…
Nov 14, 2020CommentShare
TLDR; Early studies of monitoring smartphone data show capabilities in detecting depression, mania, PTSD, and other strong correlations with traditiona…
Nov 14, 2020CommentShare
TLDR; Digital phenotyping uses smart phone sensors and interactions to provide continuous, objective measurements of mental health for better diagnoses…
Nov 14, 2020CommentShare
TLDR; Tech has the ability to address 5 major issues: measurement, access, care delay, fragmented care, and stigma. Digital phenotyping and digital int…
Nov 14, 2020CommentShare
TLDR; Growing research opportunities funded by private companies can help physicians/scientists develop new diagnostics and therapeutics.
Nov 14, 2020CommentShare
TLDR; We need deep partnerships between tech companies, clinicians, and researchers to bring product and data science expertise to the healthcare syste…
Nov 14, 2020CommentShare
TLDR; In a field that hardly uses measurement; and where clinicians are too busy and patients are unmotivated; we need an objective, passive, ubiquitou…
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TLDR; Although early human oxytocin studies are promising, we have to learn more about what oxytocin specifically targets in humans, and what doses are…
Nov 14, 2020CommentShare
TLDR; Even though neuroscience is not fully actionable, psychiatry residents need to learn it because brain science will yield much more effective diag…
Nov 14, 2020CommentShare
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