The IRONMAN 70.3 triathlon includes a 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile bike ride, and a 13.1-mile run. Completed in succession, it requires grit, endurance, and an unshakable belief that anything is possible. Stephanie “Steph” Cummings, the records and service specialist in Geisel School of Medicine’s Registrar’s Office, embodies that belief.
The palpable weight of the day’s topic hung in the room when six former U.S. Surgeons General took the stage at Dartmouth on Monday in front of an audience of hundreds. The topic at hand? The global youth mental health crisis.
The play2PREVENT Lab at the Geisel School of Medicine has received a grant from Proof Positive, a nonprofit organization focused on promoting the well-being of the autism community, to fund a two-year initiative to create and evaluate digital health games that help autistic youth build emotional resilience, social confidence, and positive coping strategies.
An advocate for underrepresented students, Luis Rosa, MEd, LCMHC, has spent the better part of his career focusing on their mental health needs. He now works with Geisel’s Counseling Services team where he continues his dedication to the wellbeing of Black, LGBTQ, and multi-racial students.
An advocate for evidence-based interventions, John Naslund and colleagues reviewed preliminary studies on the effectiveness of using digital technologies to treat mental disorders and summarized their finding in Lancet Psychiatry.
“We see this as a way to transform mental health treatment,” says Geisel’s William Hudenko.
Three innovative research pilots, pairing Dartmouth investigators with community-based partners, are being funded by Dartmouth SYNERGY’s Community Engagement Research Core to address challenging health problems facing our communities.
A new NIH-funded study at the Geisel School of Medicine aims to stem the prevalence of obesity among young adults with serious mental illness through peer support, mobile technology, and popular social media.
Geisel investigators at the Health Promotion Research Center at Dartmouth are leading a statewide effort to determine if offering financial incentives—for fitness, weight loss, and smoking cessation programs—can help people with mental illness reduce their high risk for cardiovascular disease.
While deploying old-school Palm Pilots during a psychopathology research project, Dror Ben-Zeev, PhD made a surprising discovery that has led to innovative smartphone-based treatments for people with mental health issues.
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