Impact

One of my academic hero's, Vikram Patel ✊🏻

“A mentally ill patient has the same right of freedom as any Indian” To understand the new law on mental health, our reporter turned to psychiatrist Vikram Patel who was member of the committee that drafted India’s first mental health policy, 2014

Ontario to invest additional $140-million in mental-health services Health Minister Eric Hoskins urges feds to boost Canada Health Transfer payments

We struggle in Canada too.

'Huge gap' between mental health needs and funding, expert says after health deal fails A failure to reach a deal on health-care funding has sparked a renewed call by some experts and advocates to boost funding for mental health, with one psychologist saying there's a "huge gap between the burden of illness and how much we're investing."

OOooooOoooh! Shiny new statistics!

Fundamental Facts about mental health 2016 A comprehensive summary of mental health research, providing a unique handbook of key facts and figures, covering all key areas of mental health.

Brought to you by the friendly people at the WHO!

Even more reason to get it right!

DSM-5 Diagnoses in Kids Should Always Be Written in Pencil Mislabelling children and adolescents is frequent and can haunt them for life.

The 2016 McMaster Innovation showcase focuses encouraging students, post-docs, and faculty to pursue entrepreneurship and commercialization. Amber Rieder and the IMPACT team are recipients of the award for innovation making the greatest social impact in the poster category for students, post-docs, and faculty at McMaster.

We're in the research news!

https://www.research.mcmaster.ca/news/is2016-features-inspiration-discovery-growth

Drumroll please! The IMPACT has just won the McMaster Innovation Showcase 2016 award for Social Impact! Way to go team!!

We have been busy at the McMaster innovation park showing off the IMPACT! Thanks for the invite and congrats to all the other students who were invited to share their innovations!

A little bit of thoughtfulness will go a long way in reducing stigma.

Halloween attractions use mental illness to scare us. Here’s why advocates say it must stop. When asylums are part of a haunted attraction the message isn't subtle: People with mental illness are to be feared.

A little PSA moment: panic attacks edition.