What Makes Up Your Mind

The Stanford University School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has a great tradition of fundamental science, translational and clinical research, subspecialty expertise, multidisciplinary education, and influential leadership. We invite you to follow our podcast: "WHAT MAKES UP YOUR MIND: Updates from the frontiers of neuroscience, wellbeing, and mental health" hosted by Jane McMillan, broadcast journalist and podcast producer for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.

What Makes Up Your Mind is a health podcast hosted by the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, with 27 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine hosts What Makes Up Your Mind, a health show with 27 episodes published.

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  Episode #3

  AI for Mental Health: Human Centered AI, Computer Vision Tools, and Passive Sensing - with Dr. Ehsan Adeli

  Mar 26, 202636 minS5

  <p>This episode of What Makes Up Your Mind continues our mini-series on AI4MH, Stanford Psychiatry’s Special Initiative of the Chair, AI for Mental Health. This time, we delve into the newest frontiers of Human-Centered AI, Computer Vision Tools, Passive Sensing. </p><p>Along with the meticulous training and testing of specialized Large Language Models for better and faster diagnoses of mental illnesses, our guest expert is also utilizing AI technology for catching the earliest, often undetected signs of cognitive decline with human trials already underway.</p><p>Dr. Ehsan Adeli is a Stanford Assistant Professor of Psychiatry an...

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  Episode #2

  AI for Mental Health: Human-Assist Tools for Training and New Treatment Delivery, with Dr. Shannon Wiltsey Stirman

  Nov 11, 202532 minS5

  <p>This mini-series episode of What Makes Up Your Mind looks at another aspect of AI for Mental Health (AI4MH), a Special Initiative of the Chair of Stanford’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Our guest, Dr. Shannon Wiltsey Stirman, is developing ways to utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance the delivery and availability of the latest mental health treatments for PTSD. </p><p>As a professor of psychiatry with many years working with the veteran community, Dr. Wiltsey Stirman knows well how the shortage of therapists, and their over-extended bandwidth, limits their access to training and ad...

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  Episode #5

  Climate Change: A Coming Storm for Youth Mental Health, with Dr. Britt Wray

  Sep 12, 202549 minS4

  <p>If our home, planet earth, is in peril (and it is!), then so are we. As we experience more frequent and ferocious natural disasters, the irreversible loss of life-sustaining habitats, and a climate we’ve turned into an adversary of our very existence, an existential crisis is brewing. Along with concern for our physical security, our mental well-being is being battered in these storms…figuratively, but also quite literally. </p><p>Among the most affected and concerned are young people who are contemplating their future in a profoundly precarious world. Understanding, documenting, and measuring the emotional cost of their fear...

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  AI in Mental Health Research, with Dr. Kilian Pohl

  May 8, 202537 minS5

  <p>In medical research, Artificial Intelligence is a game-changer with its power to collect and cross-analyze masses of data and lab findings to find new discoveries. And more, its ability to be trained to unlock answers to specific medical questions offers a quantum leap in refining diagnoses and treatments.</p><p>In this episode of What Makes Up Your Mind, Dr. Kilian Pohl (professor in Stanford’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and by courtesy, in Electrical Engineering) explains the basics of creating and using AI tools for improving mental health research, including in adolescent substance use, HIV, and li...

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  Episode #3

  CRAFT: The Anti-Tough Love Approach to Substance Use, with Dr. Karen Osilla

  Feb 27, 202528 minS4

  <p>Anyone who has grappled with substance use, or loves a person with addictive behaviors, knows the wrenching relationship struggles and the often futile-feeling search for workable help.</p><p>Well, this episode of WHAT MAKES UP YOUR MIND brings you hopeful developments thanks to the research and clinical work of our guest, Dr. Karen Chan Osilla, a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.</p><p>Click LISTEN to learn about an empathy-based program called CRAFT - Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Training. A key focus of CRAFT, and...

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