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Caring letters show mixed results for veterans in crisis

Supportive messages sent to Veterans Crisis Line callers increased mental health care use, but did not lower suicide attempts.

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New $12.6M grant to help unravel hallucinations

Researchers in psychiatry and biomedical informatics create a predictive AI tool to get people appropriately into care.

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AI inconsistently assesses cardiac risk from chest pain

Compared with standard assessment tools, ChatGPT-4 was unreliable in interpreting risk from simulated patient data.

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Brain cells identified that may be key to unexplained pain

Activity of a cluster of neurons is necessary and sufficient to cause a common type of unexplained chronic pain called nociplastic pain.

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Report outlines illicit drug-use patterns across Washington

Fentanyl and methamphetamine are most used, and mostly consumed via smoking, according to a survey of substance users.

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