Mental Health

AI therapy chatbots may fall short of human care and risk reinforcing stigma or offering dangerous responses.

Anna Lembke, an addiction expert at Stanford Medicine, says these steps can help you reset reward pathways and break free of your device.

A screening tool that takes just 5 minutes to complete identifies patients at risk of developing PTSD, depression, or anxiety after injury or sudden illness.

Kids with highly disturbed sleep or frequent nightmares at age 9 or 10 were more likely than sound sleepers to have suicidal thoughts and behaviors by age 12, a Stanford Medicine-led study found.

Programs designed to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity are linked to depression, PTSD, and suicidality in a Stanford Medicine-led study of more than 4,000 participants.

Brain imaging combined with machine learning can reveal subtypes of depression and anxiety, and potentially predict which types of treatment are most likely to be effective.

The professor of psychiatry and behavioral health will lead a project to define depression’s cognitive biotypes and create tools for clinicians to diagnose and treat patients.

BeWell spoke with Carole Pertofsky, MEd, Stanford Director Emerita, Health Promotion Services and Lecturer, School of Medicine, and coach, on how we can shift our mindset to better handle disappointments and obstacles and what we can do to cultivate more joy and meaning in each day.