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STAT has reported extensively on the latest research in mental health, including the development of new treatments for mental illnesses and the impact of social determinants of health on well-being. Also featured below is coverage of mental health policy, such as program funding, efforts to improve access to mental health care and the appropriate responses to mental health crises.

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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

First Opinion Sherrie Page Guyer

The tragedy of the Golden Gate Bridge’s $400 million anti-suicide net

Health Isabella Cueto and Olivia Goldhill

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

Politics Sarah Owermohle

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

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?

First Opinion Rachel Burr Gerrard

There’s no autism epidemic. But there is an autism diagnosis epidemic

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Off the Charts Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

A physician’s Mother’s Day gift: reclaimed time with my children — and for myself

Health Tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: How the FDA’s pandemic flexibilities boosted mental health apps — and what happens now

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Health Ambar Castillo

Rise in suicide-related ED visits among youth raises larger questions around mental health care

Health Amanda Seitz — Associated Press and Associated Press

Loneliness poses risks as deadly as smoking, surgeon general warns

Health Taylor Majewski

‘We went from almost no lockdowns to daily lockdowns’: The mental health crisis inside California women’s prisons

The Obesity Revolution Theresa Gaffney

‘There’s a huge fatphobia problem in the eating disorder world’: Even in treatment, weight stigma fails patients

First Opinion Sarah E. Wakeman

Why involuntary treatment for addiction is a dangerous idea

Health Ambar Castillo

Suspected suicide attempts surged among youth during pandemic, study shows

A STAT Investigation Olivia Goldhill

STAT Plus: Mindpath seemed like a success story for private equity in mental health. Now, it’s a cautionary tale

First Opinion John Torous

What the recent failures of Mindstrong and Pear tell us about the future of digital mental health

Health Gina Ryder

Demand for home health aides is soaring. So why are they still so undervalued?

Health Tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Pear Therapeutics dreamt of huge revenues and ‘commercial scale.’ It never came close

First Opinion Thomas R. Insel

We need a way to tell useful mental health tech from digital snake oil

Health Tech Mario Aguilar

STAT Plus: Digital health pioneer Pear Therapeutics files for bankruptcy

Health Care Theresa Gaffney

Trans health care, already under attack, faces new obstacle with end of Covid public health emergency

Biotech Adam Feuerstein

STAT Plus: With new study data, Intra-Cellular could expand use of approved mood-disorder treatment

Health Benedict Carey

A half century after Prozac, a new generation of depression drugs is bringing hope to a long-stagnant field

Health Care Theresa Gaffney

As states ban gender-affirming care, Minnesota aims to be a refuge for trans youth

First Opinion Jessica Gold

I finally got used to practicing telepsychiatry. Now the DEA wants to change everything

Health Isabella Cueto and Theresa Gaffney

Social media is part of a ‘self-perpetuating cycle of risk’ for eating disorders and negative body image, per study

Health Tech Mohana Ravindranath

STAT Plus: Once a Silicon Valley darling, Mindstrong sells its mental health technology for parts

Health Isabella Cueto

‘I’m terrified’: Patients scramble for treatment after 13 ketamine clinics shut down

Health Isabella Cueto

Large network of clinics offering ketamine for depression shuts down

First Opinion Greg Mayes

The second age of psychedelic therapies for mental health

First Opinion Harry Ritter

How cross-state licensure reform can ease America’s mental health crisis