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Special Report

The Future of Mental Health

Smithsonian magazine brings you stories about the latest advancements in treatments and understanding of mental illness


Many new digital psychiatry solutions have attracted funding in recent years, and experts have questions about how helpful or harmful they will be.

SCIENCE

Can Digital Psychiatry Really Fill the Mental Health Care Gap?

Participants in a Heroes’ Harvests hunt in Idaho stop and call to distant male turkeys, or toms, to locate them.

SCIENCE

Why Nature-Based Therapy Is Gaining Traction Among Veterans

This functional connectivity map, a kind of “fingerprint” of the brain, displays how different regions interact with each other in 12-year-olds. The map was constructed from resting-state MRIs, where participants were lying down and not completing a task. Larger red circles denote brain “nodes” with more connections.

SCIENCE

Can a ‘Fingerprint’ of Your Brain Help Predict Disorders?

More Stories

Rats make a high-pitched sound similar to laughter when they're being tickled.

SMART NEWS

Tickling Rats Reveals a Brain Region Linked to Laughter and Play

Sarah Kuta

Many new digital psychiatry solutions have attracted funding in recent years, and experts have questions about how helpful or harmful they will be.

SCIENCE

Can Digital Psychiatry Really Fill the Mental Health Care Gap?

Bhav Jain and Simar Bajaj

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, about half of all American adults reported experiencing loneliness.

SMART NEWS

An 'Epidemic' of Loneliness Threatens Health of Americans, Surgeon General Says

Margaret Osborne

Participants in a Heroes’ Harvests hunt in Idaho stop and call to distant male turkeys, or toms, to locate them.

SCIENCE

Why Nature-Based Therapy Is Gaining Traction Among Veterans

Daliah Singer

This functional connectivity map, a kind of “fingerprint” of the brain, displays how different regions interact with each other in 12-year-olds. The map was constructed from resting-state MRIs, where participants were lying down and not completing a task. Larger red circles denote brain “nodes” with more connections.

SCIENCE

Can a ‘Fingerprint’ of Your Brain Help Predict Disorders?

Lucy Tu

Roughly 4 percent of adults in the United States have chronic nightmares.

SCIENCE

Can a Musical Reminder Banish Bad Dreams?

Brian Handwerk

A yoga instructor practices a breathing exercise.

SCIENCE

How Does Breathing Affect Your Brain?

Greg Miller, Knowable Magazine

The project started eight years ago, when artists Heidi Quante and Alicia Escott had no words to describe the anxiety they were experiencing over California’s drought.

INNOVATION

How Two California Artists Can Help Personalize Your Eco-Grief

Dina Gachman

Past research has found that people’s personalities are relatively immune to changes following collective stressful events, but Covid-19 appears to be an exception.

SMART NEWS

Has the Pandemic Changed Your Personality?

Jacquelyne Germain

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National Suicide Prevention Hotline

If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, you can call 1-800-273-8255 for free and confidential support.

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