To App or Not to App: American Psychiatric Association Issues Guidelines to Examine Mental Health Apps

According to Torous, “We’re still in the early days.” Five years back, no research studies on digital psychiatry existed in the major medical journals. Today, a clinical literature on health apps is quickly growing. As to whether apps can …

See all stories on this topic Compulsive habits isn’t really always a sign of a broken brain

But– is there a blurred line? How can you inform when compulsive habits is becoming a problem? So, this is naturally an issue, since psychiatry– much as it wants to be a science, I think it’s fair to say it still falls a little bit short …