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Therapy for Pregnant Women With Anxiety Offers Alternative to Medication
Article/Photos: The Wall Street Journal | Reporter: Andrea Petersen | Nov 03, 2018 New psychological therapy programs help women cope better with anxiety and depression during the perinatal period HAMILTON, Ontario — At a local hospital on a...
How moms and babies rooming together can help combat opioid dependency
More and more hospitals are turning to 'rooming-in' approach for substance-exposed newborns Kobie is having none of it. The baby boy, dressed in a tiny Batman onesie, is squirming and...
Suicide of Virginia Woolf could have been predicted using Artificial Intelligence
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0204820Researchers say a predictive algorithm would have flagged the potential for self-harm What if an algorithm could be used to predict a person’s risk of suicide? Imagine being able to apply the process to text messages or social media posts to get a...
Smoking pot puts youth at higher risk of psychosis
As the October 17th legalization date approaches, St. Joe's experts are discussing the mental health risks associated with cannabis use. Dr. Suzanne Archie talks with The Spec about youth, psychosis and schizophrenia. Click here to read the full...
Just smoking pot: One man's brush with cannabis and psychosis
His introduction to marijuana would mirror that of many teens; new school, new friends, new experience. The problem is that Ryan's experimentation with pot in grade nine would develop into a dependency, and eventually lead to a psychotic break that would...