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Treating Trauma at Scale in Low-Resource Settings
Australian-registered charity
Joined April 2009
New meta-analysis reveals high #PTSD rates in #Africa: 56.35% among internally displaced people, 54.04% among #refugees. Associated factors include being female, unemployment, and depression. https://t.co/bm572ldRA5
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What an honor to work on this viewpoint w Drs. Daisy Singla & Vikram Patel—now open-access in Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology! TL;DR— *SIMPLIFY treatments, eg SSIs *DIVERSIFY workforce, eg task sharing *DEPLOY digital tools for global impact https://t.co/B7RfSpxCrF
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"How to e-mental health: a guideline for researchers and practitioners using digital technology in the context of mental health". Now out in Nature Mental Health, covering 11 topics (eg app evaluation) addressed and co-reviewed by 25 international authors https://t.co/dvO8sjXZLF
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Saddening stories of depression and despair among Afghan women in current troubling times. We must continue to support the Afgan people, building on experiences of work around mental health & psychosocial support in the country. https://t.co/b7zlbUt8lj
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Candidate biomarkers in psychiatric disorders: state of the field. World Psychiatry. https://t.co/cvcjI6UuYr
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The field of psychiatry is hampered by a lack of robust, reliable and valid biomarkers that can aid in objectively diagnosing patients and providing individualized treatment recommendations. Here we...
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“A path-analytic model for developing #PTSD and potential depression revealed both previous trauma exposure as well as duration of abduction to have significant influences on trauma-related mental suffering”
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Trained local screeners assessed the mental-health status of male and female students in Northern Ugandan schools. The study aimed to disclose potential differences in mental health-rel...
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A new study published in @Transl_Psych sheds light on the neural mechanisms behind deficits in decision-making under uncertainty in posttraumatic stress disorder #PTSD. Lead author: @ruonanjiajuly (a postdoc who graduated from @Yale_INP!) @YaleDecisionLab
nature.com
Translational Psychiatry - Neural valuation of rewards and punishments in posttraumatic stress disorder: a computational approach
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Excited to share our new 🚨 #systematicreview 🚨 on the neurobiological mechanism 🧠 of #resilience in #childhood and #adolescence as a preprint! To find out more: https://t.co/DDqxST48fL
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After a traumatic event, people with decreased activity in the hippocampus experience worse #PTSD symptoms https://t.co/1F9KBU6yzJ
jneurosci.org
Hippo campal impairments are reliably associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); however, little research has characterized how increased threat sensitivity may interact with arousal...
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#WorldMentalHealthDay is a good day to talk about #trauma. Trauma is a transdiagnostic risk factor across psychiatric conditions, finds new #SysRev. ❗️Preventing people from experiencing trauma is essential for the prevention of mental disorders❗️ https://t.co/OQkxRLLp56
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The topic of mental illness is often taboo in Black communities. But "we can all work together to recognize and address this challenge,” says Christine M. Crawford, MD, MPH. https://t.co/lPCd6mZALW
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Society must consider the legal consequences of neurotechnology, according to a world-first report from the University of Sydney
themandarin.com.au
Society must consider the legal consequences of neurotechnology, according to a world-first report from the University of Sydney.
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"Emotional Numbing in PTSD is Associated with Lower Amygdala Reactivity to Pain". A great cross-lab collaboration with @ifat_levy @YaleDecisionLab and Daniella Schiller's lab! Congrats @KoremNachshon @orduek @ZivBenZion1 @kaczkurkin Shmuel Lissek @TemOrederu for amazing work.🧠
I’m delighted to share our latest article “emotional numbing in PTSD is associated with lower amygdala reactivity to pain” is out today in @npp_journal
https://t.co/5qGaSWj7de together with @orduek, @ZivBenZion1, @harpaz_l and @ifat_levy
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#AI could turn your phone into a mobile health lab | Digital Trends
digitaltrends.com
Google Health has introduced research projects that promise to turn smartphones into disease-screening tools.
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There are many pathways to achieve transcendence. Here’s a great example of how #tech can help https://t.co/ToPrfV2UUu
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“Frequent stress produces an increase in stress hormones, which is reduced by parental presence to inhibit responses to the threat” #trauma #stress #attachment #neurobiology
frontiersin.org
Current clinical literature and supporting animal literature have shown that repeated and profound early-life adversity, especially when experienced within t...
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Research is elusive on patient engagement with mental health apps #digitalhealth
statnews.com
As companies selling mental health apps struggle to prove their worth to a skeptical health care system, we’re about to start hearing a lot more about “engagement.”
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📢 Help shape the revision of the @iascch Operational Guidance on #data responsibility in #humanitarian action! 💡Complete this brief survey today: https://t.co/LlAbbHYHy3
#privacy #dataprotection #dataresponsibility
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5 Ethical Principles for Digitizing Humanitarian Aid | Aarathi Krishnan ... https://t.co/0ZmxbKk9mK via @YouTube
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#PTSD is treatable. If you are suffering, we hope you feel encouraged today to seek the help you deserve. #PTSDAwarenessDay #PTSDAwareness
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