Mental Illness

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For some people, obsession with ChatGPT has gone so far, it's exacerbating their mental illness — and causing them to go off their meds.

ChatGPT Is Telling People With Psychiatric Problems to Go Off Their Meds

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists developed a robotic technique to make people who have no history of mental illness hallucinate voices that are not there.

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Scientists Say This Weird Robot Can Make You Hear Voices That Don’t Exist

By Noor Al-Sibai

The link between smoking cigarettes and mental illness is well-established, but a new study complicates the matter.

Smoking Cigarettes Appears to Cause Mental Illness, Scientists Say, But With a Catch

By Noor Al-Sibai

Famous French director Jean-Luc Godard decided to end his life this week via the controversial, yet legal, option of assisted suicide in Switzerland.

Famed Director Dies by Assisted Suicide

By Noor Al-Sibai

Canadian doctors will decide how to implement medical assistance in dying, or MAID, for patients with severe mental illness, depression and PTSD by 2023.

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Canadian Doctors Grapple With 2023 Plan to Let Mentally Ill Patients End Their Lives

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers claim to have improved the specific functions of the human brain by using artificial intelligence paired with electrical brain stimulation.

Scientists Claim to Improve Human Brain Function With Implants and AI

By Victor Tangermann

An increasing number of children in the UK are being treated by healthcare professionals for "eco-anxiety," a growing sense of fear over climate change.

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Shrinks Are Treating Climate-Traumatized Kids For “Eco-Anxiety”

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have discovered how to translate brain waves into the actual mood a subject is feeling — and it could lead to new treatments for depression.

This Device Reads Your Brainwaves to Figure Out Your Mood

By Jon Christian

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Long Term Depression Permanently Changes the Brain

By Chelsea Gohd

Not Just a State of Mind: Scientists Locate the Physical Source of Depression in the Brain

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Not Just a State of Mind: Scientists Locate the Physical Source of Depression in the Brain

MRI Reveals How Schizophrenic Brains Can Regenerate, Opens New Doors for Treatment

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MRI Reveals How Schizophrenic Brains Can Regenerate, Opens New Doors for Treatment

By Charmaine Caparas