The BIDMC Digital Psychiatry Program was mentioned in the New York Times on Jan 1st, 2019 in a story on Facebook and suicide prevention efforts. The story can be accessed via the Times' website and the quote is below: 

“It’s hard to know what Facebook is actually picking up on, what they are actually acting on, and are they giving the appropriate response to the appropriate risk,” said Dr. John Torous, director of the digital psychiatry division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. “It’s black box medicine.”"

BIDMC Digital Psychiatry cited by CNBC Christina Farr as she explains how she went on a social media break from Facebook and Instragram - and felt better for it.  Is the best digital health intervention not actually one at all?  ​https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/01/social-media-detox-christina-farr-quits-instagram-facebook.html

Slides from The 2018 ABCT mHealth Pre-Conference: An Innovation Forum sponsored by the Technology & Neurocognitive Therapies/Translational Research SIGs , November 2018

The attached PowerPoint slide deck is from a 2015 presentation entitled "Twitter 101 for Psychiatrists" that was presented at the annual American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. While now three and a half years old, it still has useful and relevant tips for learning how to use Twitter in a safe and productive way!

BIDMC Digital Psychiatry in the news re insomnia apps, You can read and listen here

LAMP now supports three new languages: Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin), and Brazilian Portuguese. As always, more updates are on the way.

Our team was pleased to meet with Petr Slovak of University College London and learn more about his work using smart toys for anxiety disorders in children. We even got a pre-production picture. You can read more about Petr's work HERE

Our session from the 2018 American Psychiatric Association annual meeting is nicely summarized and expanded in this piece in U.S. News and World Report: LINK