mental health

Health Tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Big Health acquires Limbix, maker of mental health app for depression in adolescents

Health Annalisa Merelli

Why more Americans aren’t using the 988 mental-health crisis hotline

First Opinion Tara Rynders

Health care systems must stop exploiting nurses’ tender hearts and begin supporting them

Health Theresa Gaffney

One year into 988 hotline, staff push for fixes to ambitious new system

Politics Olivia Goldhill

STAT Plus: How the political right came to back psychedelics to treat trauma

In the Lab Elizabeth Cooney

Why depression after traumatic brain injury is distinct — and less likely to respond to standard treatment

Health Olivia Goldhill

As psychedelics near approval, there’s no consensus on how they work

Pharma Olivia Goldhill

STAT Plus: Evangelist for legalizing MDMA therapy wrestles with his ideals as psychedelics go pharma

Health Bree Iskandar

When young people survive cancer, their mental-health struggles are often just beginning

Health Tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: For volunteers at an eating disorder hotline, being replaced by an AI chatbot carried a painful cost

Health Katharine Gammon

‘I felt like I was dying’: How women with postpartum depression fall through the cracks of U.S. health care

Health Theresa Gaffney

New research underscores benefits of gender-affirming hormones, rebutting anti-trans claims

Health Tech Mario Aguilar

A 988 operator, faced with a flood of calls, turns to AI to boost counselor skills

Health Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: National panel dismisses calls for broader suicide risk screening

Health Olivia Goldhill

‘Falling through the cracks’: Why ADHD is under-diagnosed among Asian Americans

Health Associated Press

Suicides and homicides among young Americans jumped early in the pandemic, study says

Health Tech Colin Lecher and Jon Keegan — The Markup

STAT Plus: Suicide hotlines promise anonymity. Dozens of their websites send sensitive data to Facebook

First Opinion Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft and C. Barr Taylor

STAT Plus: Why we created a chatbot to help people at risk for eating disorders

Exclusive Ellie Kincaid — Retraction Watch

STAT Plus: How a now-retracted study got published in the first place, leading to a $3.8 million NIH grant

Health Tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Akili Interactive releases video game treatment for adult ADHD with no prescription required

First Opinion Wendy Dean

How the conversation about moral injury in health care is changing

Health H Conley

Studies show top surgery is safe for fat patients, but some surgeons still mandate weight loss

Health Olivia Goldhill

Ketamine is comparable to ECT for patients with treatment-resistant depression, study shows

First Opinion Lucy Foulkes

What if we’re talking about teens’ mental health too much?

First Opinion Peter D. Kramer

STAT Plus: Will AI soon diagnose politicians’ mental health conditions from afar?

Health Ryan Fitzgerald

STAT Plus: Social media risks for youth mental health highlighted in new surgeon general report

Health Tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Pear Therapeutics sold for parts at $6 million auction

Politics Sarah Owermohle

STAT Plus: Depression hits new high among Americans, per survey

Health Isabella Cueto and Olivia Goldhill

STAT Plus: Ketamine clinics’ bust serves as warning of business challenge facing psychedelic therapy