Mental Illness

Prioritizing tech in 2021 will be the path to pandemic recovery for mental health

We are only beginning to understand the long-lasting effects the pandemic will have on mental health.

Alphabet’s X details Project Amber, a quest for a single biomarker for depression that fell short of its goal

Alphabet’s X (the Google-owner’s so-called “Moonshot Factory”) published a new blog post today about Project Amber, a project it’s been working on over the past three yea

Mental health startup eQuoo will be distributed by Unilever in new global youth campaign

Last December (yes, in the before-times) U.K.-based mental health startup eQuoo had a round of announcements, becoming the NHS-approved mental health game, as well as signing Barmer, the largest insur

Using augmented reality, Altoida is identifying the likely onset of neurodegenerative diseases

For the past 19 years, Ioannis Tarnanas, the founder and chief scientific officer at Altoida, has been developing virtual and augmented reality tools to offer predictions about the onset of mental ill

Breakthrough Grabs $5M From The Social+Capital Partnership, First Round And More To Bring Mental Health Therapy Online

Today, 67 million Americans are living with some sort of diagnosable mental illness, yet nearly 35 percent receive inadequate care and 50 percent receive no treatment whatsoever. For one of the bigges

Dr. Science says we're mentally ill

[photopress:internet_addiction.jpg,full,left]Even on days when I’m not blogging I spend a helluva lot of time online. I like to track rumors, email pretty girls, and check on the Seattle Mariner