“Mental health is becoming a more and more pressing issue in our time. Convergence Mental Health is the first to give an astute, translational overview of the progress of artificial intelligence and biobehavioral sensing technologies. I highly recommend this book for readers wanting to develop, deploy and scale technology in an integrated approach to help millions of people with mental health issues.”
―RICHARD SOCHER, PhD, Artificial Intelligence Executive, Chief Scientist, Salesforce, Former Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
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“This book is a remarkable attempt to curate a diverse group of disciplines to imagine the future of mental health, an area where, one can argue can benefit most from multiple new technologies. The topics covered will provide a roadmap of how we can scale the positive impact of the treatment of these disorders.”
―AMIR KALALI, MD, Chief Curator and Chairman, CNS Summit, Corporate Director, Editor in Chief, Innovation in Clinical Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD
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“For too long, mental health innovation has been stymied by siloes between the academic, not-for-profit and private sectors. Convergence Mental Health provides a pathway for this type of cross-sector collaboration for the development, deployment and funding of new innovations – digital, machine learning, or pharmaceutical. I applaud this effort to ‘break the siloes’ and bring about better outcomes for patients.”
―WILLIAM H. CARSON, MD, Chairman of the Board, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development and Commercialization
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“Far beyond the naive promises of the 90s, global mental health disciplines face a dire crisis driven by fragmentation. Convergence Mental Health provides a conceptual turn for the field, ambitiously pursuing the integration of emergent approaches within an innovative framework. This book delves deeply into convergence mental health and its relation with translational, personalized, transdisciplinary, precision-based, implementation-based, and entrepreneurship breakthroughs applied to diverse areas of neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, innovation, multiomics, and organizational structures. The authors flesh out a bold clinical, theoretical, and research program in mental health, ranging from basic definitions to organizational considerations. The result is an ultimate vantage point to both anticipate and create the future of mental health.”
―AGUSTIN IBANEZ, PhD, Director, Cognitive Neuroscience Center, UdeSA, Argentina
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“Mental health and substance-related issues affect the lives of more than a billion people worldwide. Convergence Mental Health explores novel financing mechanisms like social impact bonds and other blended finance vehicles to address the global shortage of providers and the lack of effective treatments. By realigning risk across the public, non-profit, and private sectors, innovative finance can help advance mental health technology to improve outcomes and the health of our society.”
―TRACY PALANDJIAN, Co-founder and CEO, Social Finance, Vice Chair, U.S. Impact Investing Alliance
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“We live in an era of discovery that includes the continuous presence of humans in space. The physical and psychological challenges facing astronauts on exploration-class missions to the moon and Mars requires innovative strategies to mitigate risks, including those affecting mental health. Convergence science is inherently interdisciplinary, integrated and well-suited for tackling critical problems at the interface of space, medicine, science and engineering. This book by Eyre and colleagues provides a nuanced and sophisticated template for addressing innovation and entrepreneurship relevant to psychiatry, space health and other fields.”
―JEFFREY SUTTON, MD, PhD, Founding Director and Professor, Center for Space Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Former CEO, National Space Biomedical Research Institute
