Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Archive Mental Health
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2026
May
20,
2026
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
When Sarkis and Seakly Manukyan decided to start a family, they did what many couples do: They talked excitedly about the future, prepared financially and emotionally, and imagined what their life with a child might look like.“We were really looking …
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2025
December
08,
2025
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
A Cedars-Sinai expert says there are reasons many feel alone and sad at the holidays—even as others are lighting up their homes, singing seasonal songs and hosting family feasts.More than a quarter of U.S. adults say they are estranged from at least …
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June
05,
2025
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09:27 AM
America/Los_Angeles
It was a sunny day in L.A.— typical, aside from unusually strong winds—and Eugene Kim, MD, surgeon-in-chief at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s, was seeing patients when he got a text message from his daughter’s school.The tone was urgent: “Please …
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2024
December
03,
2024
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08:15 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai investigators have created machine learning (ML) models, a type of artificial intelligence, that can use patients’ electronic health records to predict—independent of racial minority biases—the risk of postpartum depression.The ML …
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April
09,
2024
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06:45 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Black women in the U.S. are three times more likely than white women to die, or become seriously ill, from pregnancy-related complications, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those disparities remain regardless of income or …
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February
02,
2024
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07:15 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai clinicians and artificial intelligence experts have developed a new application that takes advantage of the unique capabilities of Apple Vision Pro to support patients’ mental health needs.The application—called Xaia, for …
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January
26,
2024
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13:13 PM
America/Los_Angeles
Cedars-Sinai physician-scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind program that uses immersive virtual reality and generative artificial intelligence to provide mental health support.Known as the eXtended-Reality Artificially Intelligent Ally, or …
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January
18,
2024
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10:09 AM
America/Los_Angeles
New research by investigators from the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai shows that behavioral activation therapy is as effective as antidepressant medications in treating symptoms of depression in patients with …
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2023
September
08,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Suicide rates have increased by nearly 40% over the past 20 years but, according to Carletta Vicain, associate director of Employee Assistance at Cedars-Sinai, suicides are preventable.Ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day on Sept. 10, Vicain spoke …
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July
19,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
People belonging to racial and ethnic minority groups are less likely than white people to receive mental healthcare.Anna Solt, MD, a Cedars-Sinai psychiatrist, said that reduced access to mental healthcare, cultural stigmas and even stereotypical …
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May
15,
2023
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Most new mothers experience one or more changes in their mood before childbirth and for two weeks after the baby arrives.Having a child is a major life event accompanied by physiological changes and the stress of caring for a completely dependent …
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