Future of Psychiatry! Innovations in Mental Health

We spoke to Valant's CEO, Ram Krishnan, about Valant EHR. Valant is an EHR system designed specifically for behavioral health practices. It offers a wide range of features, including documentation, scheduling, billing, outcome measures. We discussed some very interesting topics pertaining to EHR systems: heterogeneity of needs of users, measuring and incorporating usability, how to manage fee...

Nutritional psychiatry is an emerging field that examines the connection between food and mental health. Research shows that a healthy diet can improve symptoms of depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses. Nutritional psychiatry aims to incorporate dietary interventions as a part of mental health treatment. By identifying the specific nutrients and dietary patterns that affect mental health...

Dr. Paul Putman is a psychiatrist and author of the book, Rational Psychopharmacology. Learn why you should not call illnesses "Treatment Resistant." In this episode we discuss medication side effects, evidence, FDA approval process, psychedelics, Ketamine, TMS Host: Bruce Bassi MD More resources, including a full transcript, can be found at our podcast website: https://www.telepsychheal...

Evan Iliakis, MD PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, took time to talk to us about his research and a personal experience helping his friend navigate hospital systems with borderline personality disorder. We had a discussion on stigma and the natural course of untreated borderline personality disorder, which is in fact one that naturally improves for most people. This fact is not often...

Dr. Leah Houston and Dr. Mehnaz Hyder, of HPEC speak about the ever increasing problem of administrative overhead and how to solve this issue, through an innovative idea of a decentralized platform for physicians. The platform would allow physicians to store their credentials in an immutable database, free from fraud, where insurance companies and others can draw from to verify identity. Physician...

Emily Carroll, a fourth year medical student of Western Michigan School of Medicine, and aspiring psychiatrist, spoke to us about common ethical concerns in regard to mental health tech. We are quick to  agree to terms of service, but what are we actually agreeing to? Not only do we not read terms of service, but they are hard to understand. This could by why only 41% of people in the US trust dev...

Sean Woodward is the PsychSIGN national President and Medical Student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Sean and I discussed medical student stigma and factors that prevent students from seeking help. Dr. Bassi cited a study that gave examples of how to promote medical student mental health OTHER than simply encouraging more mindfulness. Another study gave suggestions to facu...

We spoke to Tyler Beauchamp, a fourth year medical student at the Medical College of Georgia, about his book Freeze Frame. Freeze Frame explores the mental health of a teenager who slips in and out of reality during his PTSD episodes. We used this book to explore topics of hallucinations, anxiety, social isolation, as they relate to adolescent and student mental health. We also discussed very impo...

We had the pleasure of speaking with Ania Wysocka, who is the founder of Rootd, an extremely popular app that is designed to help individuals with anxiety and panic attacks. Ania developed the app when she had experienced panic attacks and found no app that felt suitable for her. Guided by her original mission to develop an app that was practical and easy to use for her demographic, Rootd is a fun...

Please like, subscribe, comment and share, I would really appreciate it! -- Arielle Radin Pulverman (UCLA PhD student) and co-founder of Bruin Health speaks about their goals to, "enable measurement based dimensional, data driven, precision psychiatry through partnering with clinicians who want to do this type of care." Ultimately in 20 yrs, she would like to make sure that "mental...

Dr. Scott Burwell, PhD spoke about the company he founded, Neurotype. Neurotype is building brain sensing tools that help patients recognize situations in which they feel triggered to help determine the effectiveness of treatment on brain reactivity and cravings. This would allow you to incorporate elements of CBT and mindfulness based on information gathered from the device. It would also help a...

Xavier Palomer, founder of Amelia Virtual Care, speaks about virtual reality treatments in mental health & psychiatry: adoption, evidence, uses, challenges. He founded Amelia Virtual Care in 2014. Host: Bruce Bassi MD More resources, including a full transcript, can be found at our podcast website: https://www.telepsychhealth.com/futurepsychiatrypodcast/ We are always looking to grow and learn...

Dr. John Hsu, founder of iPill, discusses this innovative method of securely delivering medications, especially buprenorphine (Suboxone), to patients. The device contains a month’s supply of medications, and dispenses a single dose to the patient after they use a phone's biometric security function to unlock it. The device is tamper proof and will coat the medications with a substance renderi...

Listen to Emil Jimenez, the multicultural founder of Mind Bank, an AI based digital twin app, talk about why he started this company and what privacy and security means to him. There are so many questions pertaining to digital twin that easily come to mind – how does it work? what do they do with the data? how do they expect it to improve in the future? why do we need it? Emil feels very passionat...

Professor Maggi Savin-Baden authored “Virtual Humans: Today and Tomorrow” as well as “Digital Afterlife: Death Matters in a Digital Age.” We explored virtual reality in mental health as well as the concept of a “digital afterlife” where your thoughts, memories, and personality are encoded in an AI bot. What is a digital immortal and is it desirable for us and our loved ones? Would it help or harm...