Psychiatry’s new frontiers
Hope amid crisis
This new issue of Stanford Medicine magazine reports on emerging research and innovative treatments to improve mental health.
Mental health
Reasons for hope
Solutions for the mental health crisis emerge through innovative research, diagnostics and treatments
Neuropsychiatry and sandwiches
How a silo-busting program to probe neuropsychiatric disease was hatched over lunch
Going beyond ‘How often do you feel blue?’
AI emotional assessments are aimed at diagnosing mental illness more accurately and quickly
The early days of a psychedelic resurgence?
Research with illicit drugs to treat anxiety, depression and PTSD inches forward
Organoid brain models yield insights into resilience
Genes influence our ability to bounce back from stress
Beyond the psychiatrist’s office
Empowering community-based mental health for young people
‘We could be changing lives’
The importance of getting precise with mental health, treating it as health
Let’s talk about it
After losing a loved one to depression, a mental health expert finds the courage to tell her story
New wave psychiatry
Rolling back mental illness with electromagnetism
How moms and dads can provide mental health care
Center helps parents guide their children through psychological challenges
Toward a psychiatry of resilience
As long as we don’t have too much of it, stress makes us stronger, more competent and able to make better decisions
Culture in care
Stanford Medicine mental health professionals speak to inequities
Letter from the Dean
Advancing mental health crisis solutions
Stanford Medicine researchers, clinicians and medical students are well-positioned to lead in psychiatric discovery and treatments.
Plus
Exploring the realms of medicine and healing
An unusual school celebrates its first century
K-12 hospital school gives kids a chance for normalcy and connections to other kids during long recoveries
The power of humility and optimism in health equity advocacy
A conversation with Chelsea Clinton
The bigger the bucks, the bigger the (dopamine) bang
One reason we make bad decisions
How young is your heart?
Progress toward sussing out the biological ages of our various organs
Upfront
Reviving cognition
Device restores brain function lost to injury
Upfront
Upfront is a quick look at the latest developments from Stanford Medicine
Lab-grown heart tissue yields insights
Stem cell-derived heart tissue used to study tachycardia
Alexa, manage my diabetes
Voice-activated AI app runs on smart speaker
Autoimmunity’s XX factor
Molecule can set off immune response in women
Teen eating disorders
Hospitalizations climb with broader diagnostic criteria
Telomeres’ obesity connection
Longer telomeres in children linked to exercise and healthy diet
Equalizing cancer screening
Alternative approach for lung cancer screening outperforms national guidelines
Explore Issues
AI explodes
Taking the pulse of artificial intelligence in medicine
Health on a planet in crisis
Real-world health
How social factors make or break us
Molecules of life
Understanding the world within us