The Mental Health Innovation Group

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The Mental Health Innovation Group comprises health professionals and experts in their fields, brought together by Compass Pathways, dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation in mental health. In this series, members of the group explore some of the innovations and advances in neuroscience, technology, and mental health care that are being investigated to improve outcomes for patients.

Recent Posts

Measuring Mood Through Artificial Intelligence

My team is developing artificial intelligence approaches and brain-computer interfaces that could enable more personalized and accurate mental health care.

Serotonin: Still a Prominent Player in the Depression Puzzle

Depression is a common mental health condition that continues to challenge researchers and clinicians in the quest for effective treatments. But what role does serotonin play?

The Chatbots Pick Up on Your Feelings

Rapid advances in AI and LLMs open new opportunities for quantifying the expression of emotion in human language, with significant implications for mental health care.

Can Psilocybin Stimulate Neurogenesis in the Hippocampus?

Psilocybin’s antidepressant activity may be connected to the birth of new neurons in the hippocampus.

Can We Unlearn Fear?

How fear is stored in the brain, and why psychedelic therapies may be able to help.

SOS for Screens: Your Kids' Brain in the Digital Age

How do smartphones and social media impact our brains, and what can we do to protect ourselves?

Amplifying Positivity to Mitigate Social Disconnection

Positive emotion strategies can do what drugs and CBT can't— boost social connectedness to combat mental health conditions.

Mental Health, Sleep, and Circadian Rhythms

The genetics of circadian rhythms in sleep and mental illness are under intense investigation.

Helping Ukrainian Children Find a Safe Place

A new evidence-based mobile game aims to help Ukrainian children and their carers process trauma and strengthen their resilience.

What Big Data Says About Psychedelics

Research using natural-language processing tools in machine learning is helping us understand conscious awareness and how drugs like psychedelics change that awareness.