For highly complex patients there are often multiple periods or episodes where PT or OT is needed, but unless the therapy team can show medical need, insurers won’t approve. One agency is trying to address the issue.

In Colorado, a lack of behavioral health resources are dire as health officials are responding to around four child suicides a week and Children’s Hospital Colorado is sending kids out-of-state for treatment.

Recent alarming data from the largest survey of transgender and nonbinary youth say that more than half seriously considered suicide, according to the Trevor Project. But there are solutions.

After over a year of pandemic stress and comfort foods, many people are now looking to an emerging field of research called “nutritional psychiatry” which looks at the relationship between mental health and diet.

Despite reports of big jumps in anxiety medication scripts, alcohol treatment admits, crisis center waitlists and suicide attempts, actual mental health diagnosis was down among children and older adults in 2020 vs. the prior year.

Researchers say it’s probable but might be too early to tell if COVID-19 can increase the risk of getting dementia.

Up to one third of patients who survived Covid have been diagnosed with a psychiatric condition. Researchers found that patients requiring ICU level care were diagnosed within 6 months of getting Covid.

According to a Mayo Clinic study, mental health effects from the pandemic include significant changes in mental well-being and substance abuse among young adults.

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States or 18% of the population especially young adults, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, but it is often misunderstood.

As a respiratory virus, COVID-19 predominately targets the lungs and kidneys but a new study is offering evidence that the virus also invades brain cells and about half of patients report neurological symptoms, including headaches, confusion and delirium.

COVID has proven to be alarming for scientists and researchers who are rushing to find answers so much so that 40% of nearly 4,000 STEM Ph.D. students at the University of Minnesota reported symptoms consistent with generalized anxiety disorder and 37% with major depressive disorder, numbers as much as 19% higher compared with 2019.

The company created a 24/7 text and chat service and an international social network called TrevorSpace, using hospital admission data and Facebook text and video posts as part of an algorithm to predict and prevent suicide.

The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated pregnancy related risks globally, including in Ecuador, which has one of the two highest rates of adolescent pregnancy in South America. 1 in 5 girls give birth before age 18 in the South American country and now with the pandemic, complications from pregnancy in risky populations – both teens and adults – are exacerbated.

Body weight has an astounding impact on brain function and ultimately Alzheimer’s disease according to a new brain imaging study in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Children with autism can have a higher prevalence of oral health issues due to the nature of their neurodevelopmental condition. Autism-targeted oral health education programs as well as the advent of telehealth can go a long way to addressing the problem and helping parents.

Nearly half of children maltreated during childhood ended up with depression, addiction or both according to a University of Texas research study. Emotional abuse, rape, sexual assault, the death of a loved one, being the victim of a crime or accident, and catastrophic natural disasters are all examples of traumatic events that may have an impact on addiction.

In a sign of the times, San Francisco's Department of Public Health is collaborating with licensed physicians to distribute “limited quantities” of alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco to addicts in quarantine under the city’s program for housing homeless people in hotels. Private funding will be used.

Technology is advancing to help seniors who didn't grow up in the era of Facetime. Skylight, a digital photo company that allows you to upload photos to a frame, now lets subscribers add videos too, at no additional cost during the pandemic.