In this cohort study of Medicaid beneficiaries with schizophrenia, telemental health care diffused rapidly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in state-operated agencies. Together, agency-level and beneficiary-level race and ethnicity findings suggest within-agency racial and ethnic differences in diffusion of telemental health care. States should monitor the diffusion of innovations across vulnerable populations. 

Adam Kohn, Ph.D., has been named the chair of the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine following an extensive national search. Dr. Kohn, whose research focuses on visual processing, has been acting as the interim chair of the department for the past two years. He is a professor of neuroscience, of ophthalmology and visual sciences, and of systems & computational biology, and the Isidor Tachna Professor of Ophthalmology at Einstein.

Brief cognitive behavioural interventions that help young people manage aspects of their personality, such as impulsivity, sensation seeking, hopelessness, and anxiety sensitivity, have been shown to reduce teen Substance Use Disorders. The American Journal of Psychiatry published the findings from a new cluster randomised trial involving 31 Canadian high schools and 3,800 students. The study, led by Dr. Patricia Conrod from Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine, showed that when such interventions are delivered to students in the 7^th grade they are associated with reduced risk for substance use disorders by the end of high school.

Data collected by wearable technology can identify disease flare-ups up to seven weeks in advance

Increasing physical fitness levels does have a causal link with better language comprehension, according to the first study to show this effect.

 

The study published in Ageing, Neuropsychology and Cognition conducted by researchers from the University of Agder in Norway and University of Birmingham in the UK found that older monolingual adults who completed a six-month exercise programme were quicker at completing language comprehension tests compared to a control group.