billy’s daily mental health startup news - 8/28/25

🏠 SAMHSA awards $19M to expand housing for homeless with SMI (EIN Presswire, Global Entertainment Virgin Islands) – 8/27/25
Why it’s interesting: Expands cross-system capacity for states to address homelessness and serious mental illness.

⚖️ VA therapists report pressure to cut veterans’ one-on-one care (Leah Rosenbaum, The War Horse) – 8/26/25
Why it’s interesting: Highlights staffing shortages and disputed treatment limits affecting 1.7M veterans in VA care.

💊 New drug targets astrocytic GABA to treat PTSD (Hannah Millington, Newsweek) – 8/4/25
Why it’s interesting: Identifies astrocytic GABA as a PTSD driver; early drug trials show safety.

🧩 BrainKey uses Azure AI to detect early brain health issues (Microsoft for Startups) – 8/26/25
Why it’s interesting: Shows AI detecting neurological decline early through MRI analysis and scalable cloud support.

📊 Spring Health releases largest study proving mental health ROI (Spring Health Blog) – 8/27/25
Why it’s interesting: Study shows proactive care cut total medical costs by 10% in year two.

🧠 CBT linked to limbic gray matter growth in depression (Zwiky et al., Translational Psychiatry) – 8/27/25
Why it’s interesting: MRI study shows CBT increases amygdala and hippocampal volume in major depression.

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