{"id":742705,"date":"2026-04-21T08:27:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/742705\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:27:34","slug":"experts-in-bengaluru-call-for-dedicated-department-for-research-on-mental-health-apps-bengaluru-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/742705\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts in Bengaluru call for dedicated department for research on mental health apps | Bengaluru News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/experts-in-bengaluru-call-for-dedicated-department-for-research-on-mental-health-apps.jpg\" alt=\"Experts in Bengaluru call for dedicated department for research on mental health apps\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> Bengaluru: Mental health experts emphasised the need for a full-fledged department or centre for applied research on digital mental health applications at a three-day meeting that was convened at Nimhans and concluded Friday.The meeting on Digital Technologies for Mental Health: Evolving Policy and Regulatory Recommendations for Safe Use, was convened by Nimhans-ICMR Centre for Advanced Research (CAR) on Digital Interventions for Mental Health Care in collaboration with the SHUT Unit at Nimhans.One of the recommendations made by the CAR was a dedicated department\/centre to generate implementation-focused evidence and support the integration of digital tools into training and care through public-private collaboration, while also focusing on real-world effectiveness, user safety and responsible use. Dr Mohan Isaac, clinical professor of psychiatry at University of Western Australia, reflecting on the recommendations, said, &#8220;I strongly hope the govt takes this forward.&#8221;Seconding this, Dr Prabha S Chandra, director of Nimhans, said, &#8220;It is time to establish departments of digital mental health and digital health in every organisation. This is now a specialty in itself and requires dedicated attention, and I believe this is the direction in which the future is heading.&#8221;Dr Prabha added while the focus of the conclave was on mental health apps, other aspects of the digital mental health ecosystem also had to be addressed. &#8220;I would urge CAR to treat this as one in a series of consultations, with each area requiring separate attention and recommendations in the context of mental health,&#8221; she said, adding that it is important to identify groups that are already working on this subject, learn from their work and build on existing efforts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bengaluru: Mental health experts emphasised the need for a full-fledged department or centre for applied research on digital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":742706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[36],"tags":[29717,29716,29718,29719,306209,306207,210,517,306206,306208,157560,29720,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-742705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-bengaluru-latest-news","tag-bengaluru-news","tag-bengaluru-news-live","tag-bengaluru-news-today","tag-digital-interventions","tag-digital-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-apps","tag-mental-health-research","tag-nimhans","tag-today-news-bengaluru","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116441753130305026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}