digital health
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British media, child and adolescent, content analysis, digital health, Digital media, digital mental health, Editor Nina Higson-Sweeney, gender-based violence, manosphere, newspapers, observational study, problematic internet use, qualitative, safeguarding, Social media, Television, The British Journal of Psychiatry, thematic analysis, topical, toxic masculinity, violence, youth mental healthDid Netflix’s Adolescence change how the media reports on teen social media use?
When Netflix released Adolescence in March 2025, it quickly became much more…
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American Journal of Psychiatry, bipolar disorder, Chronotherapy, circadian rhythms, depression, digital health, Editor Eimear Foley, fitbit, light therapy, machine learning, mental illness prevention, mood disorders, personalised medicine, Prevention, randomised controlled trial, recurrence, relapse prevention, sleep, sleep disorders, smartphone apps, wearable technologyCan a circadian rhythm app stop depression and bipolar relapse?
Mood disorders are often recurrent. For many people with depression or bipolar…
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ADHD, aggression, anorexia nervosa, Anxiety, child and adolescent, digital health, digital mental health, Editor Nina Higson-Sweeney, immersive virtual reality, Internet Interventions, meta-analysis, serious games, substance use, systematic review, Virtual reality, youth mental healthImmersive VR therapy for young people: promising, but early days
Anyone who spends time with children and adolescents these days knows that…
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ADHD, aggression, anorexia nervosa, Anxiety, child and adolescent, digital health, digital mental health, Editor Nina Higson-Sweeney, immersive virtual reality, Internet Interventions, meta-analysis, serious games, substance use, systematic review, Virtual reality, youth mental healthImmersive VR therapy for young people: promising, but early days
Anyone who spends time with children and adolescents these days knows that…
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actigraphy, CAN-BIND Wellness Monitoring, Chronotherapy, circadian rhythms, cohort study, depression, digital biomarkers, digital health, digital innovation, digital mental health, Editor Eimear Foley, JAMA Psychiatry, longitudinal study, major depressive disorder, monitoring, Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale, recurrence, relapse, relapse prevention, remission, rest-activity rhythms, sleep, sleep disorders, sleep disturbance, sleep hygiene, topical, wearable technologySleep and rest-activity rhythms in depression relapse: can wearables see the storm coming?
You have begun to emerge from the fog that had settled over…
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ADHD, Anxiety, child and adolescent, conduct disorder, cross-sectional, cross-sectional research, digital health, digital mental health, eating disorders, Editor Nina Higson-Sweeney, England, externalising problems, internalising problems, Nature Human Behaviour, registered report, Social media, topical, youth mental healthYoung people with mental health conditions use social media differently
In the past decade, mental health concerns in adolescents have been on…
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artificial-intelligence, Brain, digital health, dyskinesia, feasibility trial, levodopa, medication adherence, neuroscience, parkinson’s disease, UPDRS, wearing offAI Levodopa Timing Improved UPDRS 4.4 Points in 5 Parkinson Patients
A 2026 open-label feasibility trial involving 5 Parkinson’s disease patients found that…
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australia, child and adolescent, clinical engagement, digital engagement, digital health, digital innovation, digital interventions, digital mental health, digital peer support, Editor Simon Bradstreet, engagement, Internet Interventions, internet-based treatment, mixed methods, topical, youth mental healthSocial connection is the key for engaging young people with digital mental health interventions
As many are acutely aware, mental health services are increasingly unable to…
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child and adolescent, cross-sectional, depression, digital health, digital mental health, digital technology, harm, harm reduction, JAMA Pediatrics, obesity, parenting, Pediatrics, prospective study, risk factors, sleep, sleep disorders, sleep problems, smartphone acquisition, smartphones, teenagers, topical, youth mental health
Should we wait until age 13 before giving our kids a smartphone?
Two new studies from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development cohort find that…
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ADHD, anorexia nervosa, Anxiety, Autism, autistic spectrum disorder, bipolar, depression, digital health, digital mental health, Editor Nina Higson-Sweeney, Facebook, Instagram, Journal of Social Media Research, misinformation, neurodivergent, obsessive compulsive disorder, Social media, systematic review, TikTok, twitter, YouTubeScrolling for answers: how reliable is mental health and neurodivergence-related information on social media?
Imagine the following scenario. You’re lying in bed, phone in hand, scrolling…
