Avatar Therapy Shows Promise for Voice Hearers
While technology has given therapists a whole new way to explore exposure therapy with patients with PTSD and anxiety disorders, other mental health issues haven’t gotten quite the same boost.…
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People With Schizophrenia Are Using Brain Training Games to Help Their Symptoms
Read MoreBrain training games may be of questionable benefit in many cases, but the science is clearer for people with schizophrenia. Certain cognitive impairments that can be particularly troublesome respond well…
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Brain Training App ‘Peak’ Includes a Game for People With Schizophrenia
Read MoreSetting aside the issue of whether brain training games are effective at improving your cognition or intelligence (a questionable assertion, at best), there is at least one good reason to…
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Report Finds that Stigma is Still a Serious Problem
Read MoreImage credit: Matthew Wiebe With a new depression or anxiety awareness campaign cropping up on a near-daily basis, it’s tempting to believe that we’re all well and truly aware. So…
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Schizophrenia and the Stigma We Ignore
Read MoreWe talk a lot about the stigma of mental illness these days, and not just here–not a day goes by without some new effort to raise awareness of depression or…
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Upcoming App Makes Quitting Easier for Smokers with Severe Mental Health Issues
Read MoreIn 2014, a CDC survey found that about 17 percent of Americans smoke tobacco. For people with schizophrenia, that number is much higher – at least 60 percent according…
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Science gets closer to understanding schizophrenia
Read MoreSchizophrenia has long been considered a mystery by much of the mental health community – a complex psychiatric disorder that is caused by biological processes we don’t yet understand. That…