Mental health treatment advances-including neuropsychiatric medications and devices,
psychotherapies, and cognitive treatments-lag behind other fields of clinical medicine such …

OBJECTIVE: Clinical trials in psychiatry frequently fail to maximize clinical utility for
practicing clinicians, or, stated differently, available evidence is not perceived by clinicians …

World Psychiatry 21: 2-June 2022 321 products that are specifically designed for user
engagement3. These standards are all the more necessary as user engagement is often far …

Getting the right treatment to the right patient is a frustrating goal in mental health: treatment
is a trial-anderror endeavor, often yielding disappointing outcomes. Why? Traditional …

Concern about disappointing results from recent multi-center trials of new antidepressants
prompted several ACNP workshops on “improving the technology of clinical trials.” The …

A large number of Internet websites, mobile apps, wearable devices, and video games that
are hoped to improve behavioral, cognitive, and affective targets associated with mental …

With advances in medical sciences, cancer research no longer focuses primarily on effective
treatments, but rather a host of other issues such as tools for early diagnosis, cost of …

Background Considered one of the highest levels of evidence, results of randomized
controlled trials (RCTs) remain an essential building block in mental health research. They …

Evidence-based psychiatry seeks the best research evidence for use in patient care. Recent
research suggests that problems with accuracy, precision, bias, and other sources of …

Digital therapeutics (DTx), evidence‐based software interventions for preventing, managing,
or treating medical disorders, have rapidly evolved with healthcare's shift toward online …