Mental Health & Neuroethics

Mood tracking apps do not just log feelings, they label them first and your brain follows. How feedback loops and automation bias reshape self-perception.

Unpaid caregiving costs women their health, careers, and about $324,000 in lifetime earnings. The real numbers and where to find help that actually exists.

Most mood trackers have no clinical validation, and symptom checkers get the first diagnosis right about a third of the time. How to use them without harm.

A Danish study of a million women linked the pill, mini-pill, and hormonal IUDs to higher antidepressant use. What the numbers mean for your choice.

What large cohort studies actually show about SSRIs in pregnancy, why relapse risk dominates the math, and how to read relative versus absolute risk.

Pain and depression feed each other through inflammation and brain changes. How integrated care breaks the loop, and the new coverage rules that fund it.

SSDI for depression averages about $1,580 a month against a $4,018 maximum, and the path to approval matters as much as the diagnosis. The real numbers.

Untreated depression in pregnancy is itself a risk factor. How to weigh SSRI data, absolute versus relative risk, and why stopping cold is the real danger.