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11/15/2020

Virtual Reality and the COVID Mental Health Crisis

Article Excerpt: A national shortage in mental health clinicians existed before COVID-19. Now, health care organizations must decide how to rapidly scale and deploy behavioral health care to a geographically widespread and increasingly isolated populace. There is no time to wait for expansion of the mental health workforce. Doctors are now turning to an unlikely solution: virtual reality (VR).

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/y3ugsx74

Article Source: Scientific American

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08/27/2020

Dartmouth Awarded NIH grant to Detect Cancer Left Behind During Surgery

Article Excerpt: Dartmouth engineers have been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop and test a device that could be used by surgeons to detect prostate cancer still left in the body during surgery…“We’re really trying to augment and improve a patient’s quality of life following surgery, and intraoperatively detecting positive surgical margins will help to make that a reality,” said principal investigator Ryan Halter, a professor of engineering and of surgery at Dartmouth College.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/y2nzotvh

Article Source: NH Business Review

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07/20/2020

Technology-Based CBT Provides Innovative Options for SUD Treatment

Article Excerpt: Using technology to deliver CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) is a new approach that is being used to break down barriers of the past that confined treatment options to in-person therapy.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/y4nvpubk

Article Source: Psych Congress Network

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05/01/2020

Tech Company to Test Out Smartphone App Connecting Those Released From NH Jails With Recovery Services

Article Excerpt: A Boston tech company has been awarded a grant to test out digital tools that could improve outcomes for those exiting the criminal justice system who have been treated for substance use disorder.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/y7338hce

Article Source: Manchester Ink Link

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04/16/2020

Despite Recent Downturn, Local Health Officials Still Concerned Over Vape Use Among Teens

Article Excerpt: The number of eighth-graders who admit vaping in the last 30 days rises every year, according to surveys by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Since 2016, the percentage has doubled. Last year, almost half the 12th-graders surveyed vaped, as well. University of Cincinnati Addiction Sciences assistant professor Dr. LaTrice Montgomery, whose research focuses on marijuana and tobacco co-use, said THC plays no small role.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/y25rnnck

Article Source: WCPO Cincinnati

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03/13/2020

Dartmouth’s Geisel Med School Awarded $3 Million for Type 1 Diabetes Research

Article Excerpt: Geisel School of Medicine The Center for Technology and Behavioral Health at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine will be awarded a 5-year, $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a study led by Catherine Stanger, PhD, to test the effectiveness of innovative behavioral intervention tools in helping to improve the health of high-risk patients who suffer from Type 1 diabetes—a condition which is difficult and expensive to manage.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/rn2bp24

Article Source: Vermont Biz

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03/09/2020

Geisel To Receive $3 Million Award to Study New Digital Tools for Managing Type 1 Diabetes

Article Excerpt: The Center for Technology and Behavior Health at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine will be awarded a 5-year, $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a study led by Catherine Stanger, PhD, to test the effectiveness of innovative behavioral intervention tools in helping to improve the health of high-risk patients who suffer from Type 1 diabetes—a condition which is difficult and expensive to manage.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/wlro6np

Article Source: Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine News

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03/08/2020

More Than $700K To Go Toward Type 1 Diabetes Research

Article Excerpt: Nearly $713,000 in federal funding is going to Dartmouth College to support research to test new ways to better treat and control type 1 diabetes. The funding will go toward a five-year study that will use digital tools to support behavioral changes to help young people with diabetes follow a complicated medical regimen and achieve better health outcomes…The funding to Dartmouth’s Center for Technology and Behavioral Health will go toward a study led by Dr. Catherine Stanger.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/rq3454p

Article Source: Concord Monitor

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03/04/2020

Research, Outreach and Insulation: Dartmouth’s Response to the Opioid Epidemic

Article Excerpt: 68,557 people died from drug overdoses in the U.S. in 2018. Opioid addiction in particular is responsible for a large portion of these deaths, and it is especially prevalent in New Hampshire, which is one of the top five states with the highest rate of opioid-involved deaths…The Dartmouth Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, which is supported by the NIH, and uses federal funds to research cutting-edge treatments for opioid use disorder, according to CTBH director Lisa Marsch. Marsch said that Geisel has piloted several new programs, forming partnerships with the New Hampshire state prison system, emergency rooms and even the Manchester Fire Department to give residents better access to treatment.

Full Article: https://tinyurl.com/tfwryly

Article Source: The Dartmouth

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