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Despite AI’s growing role in teens’ daily lives, from homework help to emotional support, young people are still being left out of the policy conversations shaping it. In this article, Nico Fischer, a high school senior and Center Youth Collective youth advisor, Vicki Harrison, Program Director for the Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing, and Caroline Figueroa, a Commonwealth Harkness Fellow, highlight the importance of including youth voices in AI discussions and outline opportunities to better support their mental health.

Lab-grown organoids are turbo-charging the study of human brain development and disease. Sergiu Pasca, the Kenneth T. Norris, Jr. Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Bonnie Uytengsu and Family Director of the Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program, provides comment.

For a decade, we've been told our screens are wrecking our sleep. The real culprit is far bigger than the glow from your phone. Jamie Zeitzer, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, provides comment.

This sports psychiatry discussion centered on a meaningful gap in the sports psychiatry literature and proposed a bidirectional model linking coach sleep health to team performance outcomes. Roy Collins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, is interviewed.

This episode explores the relationship between AI and psychosis. Co-host Alan Atkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, discusses whether chatbots help or hurt those experiencing psychosis, with guests Apurva Bhatt, Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Shannon Pagdon.