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Finding Genius Podcast

Causes of Mental Illness and Tips for Mental Health Treatment Discussed In-Depth with Dr. Adam Chekroud

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

How can treatments for mental health issues and be reimagined to work more effectively for more people? By offering new solutions and strategies to individuals struggling with their mental health, breakthroughs provide hope to those who it was not previously available. Listen in to learn:

  • How Netflix can give hints on how to better optimize mental healthcare
  • Which collected data may be most valuable
  • How more intensive care can be given the same updates 

Dr. Adam Chekroud, chief scientist and co-founder of Spring Health, discusses his work to combat the country's mental health epidemic and offers innovative new approaches to treatment.

Mental health is an oft-overlooked aspect of health that can lead to many physical symptoms and struggles that can occupy an individual's day-to-day life. However, using new techniques like machine learning and algorithms to find patients increasingly optimized and personalized care, more targeted therapeutic approaches can be applied.

Through analyzing symptoms and the frequency at which they occur, a set of data points can be organized, which researchers use to better hone the personalization of the care provided. In addition, since much of previously in-person therapy has been transitioned to online, Spring Health aims to broaden the type of care they offer while upholding the quality of care provided.

Visit springhealth.com for more information.

Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C

Transcript

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0:00.0

Forget frequently asked questions.

0:02.0

Common sense, common knowledge, or Google.

0:05.0

How about advice from a real genius?

0:07.0

95% of people in any profession are good enough to be qualified in license.

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5%?

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Go above and beyond.

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They become very good at what they do.

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But only 0.1% are real geniuses.

0:18.0

Richard Jacobs has made his life's mission to find them for you.

0:22.0

He hunts down and interviews geniuses in every field.

0:25.0

Sleep science, cancer, stem cells, ketogenic diets, and more.

0:29.0

Come the geniuses.

0:30.0

This is the Finding Genius Podcast.

0:33.0

The Richard Jacobs.

0:38.0

Before we begin, a note from our sponsor.

0:40.0

I'm Richard Jacobs, executive director of the Nonprofit Finding Genius Foundation, and host

0:45.0

of the Finding Genius Podcast.

0:47.0

In late 2016, I was re-rendered at 65 miles an hour by a truck on the highway, which sent

0:52.6

me off-road into a ditch.

0:54.8

The impact of the collision gave me a concussion and other injuries.

0:58.0

At the hospital, a CT scan showed that I had thyroid nodules, which turned out to be cancer.

1:03.0

It was then, when I had a biopsy, my neck, that I realized, even if I was a million there,

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