COVID-19

Research Roundup: The Predictive Power of the Brain

The antidepressant fluvoxamine (Luvox) appears to be effective for Covid-19, reminding us that the term "antidepressant" may not fully describe this medication.

Latest in COVID-19
COVID grief in the workplace, Ketamine therapy booming too fast?
Helping schoolchildren with ‘long COVID,’ law students report depression
Musicians confront substance use, Minneapolis to vote on police
Research Roundup: COVID-19’s Global Impact and Mental Health Crisis Response

As states grapple with the national mandate to create a national mental health emergency hotline, the call for response teams and collaboration across systems increases.

Research Roundup: How Treatment Courses Impact People With Schizophrenia

Examining COVID-19's risk factors for mental health consequences, and the danger of police injury to people with serious mental health illness.

Covid and Depression

While we have clearly improved our responses to Covid’s medical complications, the psychological fallout may be more intractable.

The continued surge in demand for mental health services
CDC Recognizes Mental Illness as Risk for COVID-19 Complications, Increasing Access to Booster Shots

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recognized that people with schizophrenia and mood disorders such as major depression have a heightened risk of severe outcomes if they contract COVID-19, which increases their chances of being admitted to intensive care units.

Research Roundup – October 16, 2021
MindSite News Daily – Pandemic Stress and Women’s Work
The Lockdown Inside the Lockdown

COVID-19 and severe isolation have created a mental health crisis for incarcerated youth resulting in an epidemic of despair.

The Kids Are Not Alright

More students are returning to classrooms with mental health challenges than before the pandemic began.

A Short-Term Home Where People in Crisis Can Avoid the Hospital
Can Income Reduce Mental Illness?
Full of Mad Black Pride, She Tells Her Story and Helps Others Tell Theirs

Kelechi Ubozoh spent her childhood straddling two different worlds. She spent summers with her Nigerian father in New York, where she was born, and the rest of the year in suburban Atlanta, where her African American mother worked as a doctor. Today, she’s a mental health advocate, a convener and a storyteller.