Startup Gambles on Treating Mental Health Online
Hoping to help close a care gap, Cerebral offers online consultation and drugs for anxiety, depression and insomnia
Cerebral, a San Francisco-based startup launching Wednesday, offers patients online mental-health services and medication through the mail.
Source: CerebralA new San Francisco startup wants to make accessing mental-health care almost as simple as ordering a ride to the airport on your phone.
Cerebral, which launched Wednesday, offers an online alternative for people who have been left without good treatment options for mental-health issues. The company is following the example of Silicon Valley-funded upstarts like Hims Inc., Roman Health Medical LLC and Nurx Inc. that have widened access to baldness treatments, contraceptives and erectile-dysfunction drugs through discreet online interaction with doctors.