Read article—Paul Holtzheimer, a professor of psychiatry and surgery, is quoted in an article about an experimental new brain therapy for treatment-resistant depression called SAINT, for Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy. The EEG findings “still should be viewed as highly preliminary,” Holtzheimer said. “It could be a mechanism of SAINT or it could be a generic finding when depression improves, regardless of what improves the depression.”

Read article—Courtney Stevens, an assistant professor of psychiatry, is featured in an article about services for older adults to help them safely navigate the winter months. “Not all of these are going to be relevant for everyone, so you have to figure out which are the highest priority,” Stevens said.

Read article—Features highlights from A Global Turning Point: Why Youth Well-Being Is in Crisis—and What We Must Do About It, the symposium hosted by Dartmouth and the United Nations Development Programme in October. “We still have significant work ahead,” President Sian Leah Beilock said, “but we also have hope and evidence that we can identify the interventions that truly make a difference.”

Read article—Features comments by Robert Brady, an associate professor of psychiatry, about seasonal depression. “Most commonly, although not exclusively, that aligns with kind of the late fall, early winter for the start of the symptoms and then the remission of those symptoms at the end of winter as spring is coming,” Brady said. “Around the equator during the summer, it’s brutally hot. People don’t want to be outside in those conditions then. And so you actually see (seasonal affective disorder) occurring there as well.” (Picked up by The Keene Sentinel.)

Read article—Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is quoted in an article about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s claims that parenting without ChatGPT would be impossible. “General-purpose models aren’t trained on validated parenting science,” Jacobson said. “Their advice can be generic, wrong, or reflect the biases in their training data—i.e. the open internet.” (Jacobson’s comments first appeared in Parents.)