Tag: suicide prevention
Digital Suicide Prevention: Can Technology Become a Game-changer?
by Arshya Vahabzadeh, MD; Ned Sahin, PhD; and Amir Kalali, MD Dr. Vahabzadeh is Director of Digital Health, Brain Power, in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Innovation Officer at Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Sahin is Chief Science Officer at Brain Power and Associate […]
Editor’s Message: Special Edition of ICNS Covers Multiple Aspects of Assessment of Suicidal Ideation and Behavior
Dear Colleagues: Every year, over 800,000 people commit suicide worldwide, with over 40,000 of these deaths occurring annually in the United States. There are many more who attempt it.[1,2] A United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report indicated that nearly 500,000 people in the United States visit a hospital annually for injuries […]
