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First teen convicted in Kenneth Lee case gets 15 months probation

The first teenage girl convicted in the 2022 death of Toronto homeless man Kenneth Lee will no longer have to remain in custody and will instead be placed on probation while she participates in a community program for young people with mental health issues. The girl, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was 13 at the time of the Dec. …

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From reading dreams to helping locked-up patients: what the future of EEG could look like

EEG brainwave reading technology helps monitor people with epilepsy and can detect when we fall asleep at the wheel in a simulator. As scientists celebrate the 100th anniversary of the test, here’s why many in the field are excited about its future applications in medicine. Today’s electroencephalogram, or EEG, device consists of electrodes that are attached to the patient’s or …

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TikTok has been called the therapist bank of Gen Z. But not all #mentalhealth info is correct

Spark53:59Being human now 9 – Well-being It’s “scroller beware” on #mentalhealth TikTok, where the content ranges from informed to misleading, and has the potential to be both helpful and harmful, mental health providers say. Jonathan Shedler, a psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, says he’s concerned about the quality of mental health information …

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