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Behind the Smiles: Mental Health in South Korea’s High-Pressure Society

Mad in America

S outh Korea is often celebrated for its remarkable economic growth, technological advancement, and cultural exports like K-pop and Korean dramas. A Silent Crisis Despite rising awareness, mental health is still a taboo topic in many Korean families. Ive also been one of them. Psychotherapy is rarely suggested. The implication?

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Beyond the Chemical Imbalance: Looking to the Past to Understand the Mental health Crisis

Mad in America

W e are living in an era of unparalleled prosperity, driven by advances in technology that have made the basic necessities of life—food, water, shelter—widely accessible to many. Life in America has generally become easier due to technological advancements. If that were the case, most of us would not be sitting here today.

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Dreaming with Purpose: How the Mind’s Hidden GPS Can Guide Us Toward Personal and Societal Healing

Mad in America

What if these unsettling mental imageries aren’t glitches in our mental software? Technology further distracts from inner experiences. Amental health crisissteeped in cultural amnesia. For trauma survivors, these visions often spill into waking life as flashbacks, blurring the line between sleep and waking reality.

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Intellectual Developmental Disorder and Mental Health

Child Mind Intitute

Research shows that children with intellectual developmental disorder have a higher incidence of mental health problems than other kids, but they are less likely to be diagnosed and treated for them. Why are kids with IDD more at risk for mental health disorders?

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Promise and Responsibility: Big Data and AI in Youth Mental Health

Child Mind Intitute

Watch the Recording In this conversation, Yuki Kotani of the Child Mind Institute talks to Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, MD, JD , director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, about the ethics of artificial intelligence, consent, and privacy in digital youth mental health research and interventions. One is equity.

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Addressing the Silent Mental Health Crisis of Children and Youth Around the World

Child Mind Intitute

The Current Landscape: A Need for Cultural Sensitivity Children and adolescents in LMICs face severe challenges that greatly affect their mental health, including high levels of poverty, exposure to child labor, violence, conflict, and limited access to education. Yet data on their mental health needs are severely lacking.

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Member Spotlight: 2025 Spence Awardee Gemma Sharp on the Prospects of Eating Disorder Research

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

I found myself becoming more and more drawn to a career as a health professional, but I still wanted to maintain my research career. I noted how misunderstood and overlooked these areas were in mental health settings and in general. What are some highlights of your research? What has it shown?