🧠 Zak Williams joins Headlamp Health to advise on Lumos AI precision psychiatry platform (Rachel Curry, Observer) — 01/21/26 TL;DR: Headlamp Health launched Lumos AI on Jan. 7 with Zak Williams on its advisory board, positioning the platform as a multi-layer “agentic” AI system that uses large psychiatric and longitudinal datasets to improve diagnosis, patient stratification, and clinical trial efficiency, while keeping clinicians in the loop.
🧒 Report flags major evidence gaps on how tech use affects child mental health (Peter Oluka, Techeconomy) — 01/21/26 TL;DR: A new child and youth mental health report warns rising youth mental health issues are colliding with growing technology use, but research is thin, especially for under-12s and under-5s, with limited longitudinal data, little global south coverage, and few studies on how parents’ tech use affects kids.
🎙️ Ambient listening “AI scribes” gain traction in outpatient therapy, but privacy and trust set hard limits (Chris Larson, Behavioral Health Business) — 01/20/26 TL;DR: Behavioral health providers say ambient listening tools reduce documentation burden and improve clinician presence, but adoption hinges on explicit patient consent, strong security and retention policies, and clear boundaries. The message from clinicians is blunt: the tool writes notes, it does not think for the therapist.
🏛️ NAMI warns federally appropriated mental health funds need stronger safeguards after SAMHSA grant whiplash (Giuliana Grossi, Jennifer Snow, AJMC) — 01/20/26 TL;DR: NAMI’s Jennifer Snow says the brief termination of nearly $2B in SAMHSA grants showed how quickly community mental health and SUD services can be disrupted, and argues the FY26 appropriations process should add checks so agencies deliver congressionally directed dollars as intended.
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