{"id":617241,"date":"2026-04-20T20:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/617241\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:14:18","slug":"experts-in-bengaluru-call-for-dedicated-department-for-research-on-mental-health-apps-bengaluru-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/617241\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts in Bengaluru call for dedicated department for research on mental health apps | Bengaluru News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/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":2,"featured_media":617242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[48577,48576,48578,48579,49,48,231945,231943,84,393,231306,231944,394,107243,48580],"class_list":{"0":"post-617241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-bengaluru-latest-news","9":"tag-bengaluru-news","10":"tag-bengaluru-news-live","11":"tag-bengaluru-news-today","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-digital-interventions","15":"tag-digital-mental-health","16":"tag-health","17":"tag-mental-health","18":"tag-mental-health-apps","19":"tag-mental-health-research","20":"tag-mentalhealth","21":"tag-nimhans","22":"tag-today-news-bengaluru"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}