Connected Care Weekly | 1st October 2026
CT-155, the schizophrenia app I wrote about, now has peer-reviewed Phase 3 results. Plus: what families should ask about TMS when depression won’t lift.
Connected Care Weekly: 28 September 2026
This week: why a UCSF psychiatrist rejects “AI psychosis,” magnetic stimulation for schizophrenia’s thinking symptoms, and brain stimulation moving into the home. Caregivers, take note.
Diabetes Got 35.3%. Schizophrenia Got a Shrug.
Diabetes got a market-share number. Schizophrenia got a shrug — one throwaway clause in a $39 billion “digital health” report, recycled across seven press releases without a single data point. If they won’t even count us, why would they build for us?
Connected Care: Special Announcement
Teva’s new clinician site says most schizophrenia patients stop taking daily pills — and most relapse anyway. Here’s why long-acting injectables deserve an earlier conversation.
Connected Care Weekly: 10 September 2026
Nearly 2 in 3 young adults face mental health distress. 1 in 8 teens now uses AI chatbots for support — up 50% in under a year. Congress is finally responding.
What a New Pediatric Crisis Study on Technology Tells Caregivers of People With Serious Mental Illness
Shocking new data: nearly one in five pediatric psychiatric crises now involve digital media, and those cases are twice as likely to end in hospitalization. Caregivers, take note right now.
Connected Care: Avatar Therapy Special Edition
27 years of hearing voices that said she wasn’t worth living as a human being. Then she put on a VR headset and talked back. Five years later: silence, finally.
Connected Care Special Edition: Neurotech
Neurotech is moving fast. What is it? Why do you care…if your loved one has serious mental illness…you might want to know.
Connected Care: Regulatory Special Edition
Five states ban AI therapy. Others allow it with rules. Nobody agrees. Meanwhile, 1 in 6 adults — 1 in 4 under 30 — already quietly use AI for mental health help.
Connected Care Newsletter 31 August 2026
AI-AI-O. The new version of E-I-E-I-O.
But, AI chatbots are increasingly under inspection for psychosis. GOOD.