Brain & Mental Health

Screens & digital health

A therapist holding a pen and paper rests a hand on the knee of a seated client whose hands are clasped; faces are out of frame.

Bergen four-day OCD treatment beat an unguided online course, 42% to 14% in remission

Oct 19, 2026

A person sits on a bed in near darkness looking down at a lit phone screen, seen from above.

A hospital found 28 cases of 'AI psychosis' among 215,712 mental health patients, most in a first episode

Oct 12, 2026

A child in a navy T-shirt sits in an armchair using a tablet, beside a windowsill lined with small potted plants.

More screen use, slightly lower school achievement and more behavior problems, across 2.8 million children

Oct 9, 2026

Two children on a couch, seen from above, looking at a phone that one of them is holding.

Owning a smartphone at age 12 was linked to more eating disorder symptoms at 14 in 8,957 US adolescents

Oct 2, 2026

A woman with short gray hair wearing over-ear headphones, using a phone on a sofa

A tinnitus app beat a sham app by 20 points on a distress score in a 60-person randomized trial

Sep 21, 2026

A woman sitting cross-legged on the floor by a sofa, following a session on a phone propped on a small tripod

Digital self-help cut anxiety and depression in chronic illness, coach or no coach

Aug 26, 2026

A teenager in a yellow t-shirt holding a game controller, looking at the screen

PlaySmart video game nudged teen depression scores down a point over a year

Aug 19, 2026

Acceptance skills added nothing to mindfulness training in a trial of 392 people

Aug 18, 2026

Two dark armchairs facing each other in front of a window with closed blinds in a dim room

Psilocybin beat placebo in the first NHS-funded trial

Aug 9, 2026

A middle-aged man sitting on a pale sofa at home, holding a phone to his ear and gesturing

Self-guided therapy beat clinician sessions for chronic pain

Aug 8, 2026

Close-up of two hands holding and scrolling a smartphone

Likes drove more posting in people with depression

Aug 3, 2026

A group of teenagers sitting on a staircase looking at a phone

Australia banned under-16s from social media. Most kept using it.

Aug 1, 2026

A woman resting on a sofa with headphones on and her eyes closed

The IBS hypnotherapy app lost to a human, but not to nothing

Jul 29, 2026