Read article – Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, and Michael Heinz, an assistant professor of psychiatry, are featured in an article about the first-ever clinical trial of a therapy chatbot powered by generative AI—a technology that may someday help relieve the lack of access to mental health providers. (Picked up by France 24, Yahoo! Tech, ET HealthWorld, The News.)

Read article – Margaret Karagas, a professor and chair of the department of epidemiology, is quoted in an article about the levels of arsenic in white rice and brown rice.

Read article – Jacob Borodovsky, a senior research scientist at the Center for Technology and Behavioral Health and the Department of Biomedical Data Science, is quoted in an article about researchers having to seek new ways to maintain or diversify their funding sources as the White House continues to target universities and research programs. “Really, the only institution that would fund my kind of work is the government because they have a public health mandate,” Borodovsky said.

Read article – An extended interview with Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, about the first-ever clinical trial of a generative-AI therapy chatbot—a technology that may someday help relieve the lack of access to mental health providers. “There’s just a huge volume of need and not enough people to go around,” Jacobson said.

Read article – Features comments by Stewart Tepper, a clinical professor of neurology, who served as a co-investigator in a clinical trial for a novel prescription digital therapeutic, CT-132 by Click Therapeutics, that has shown to significantly reduce monthly migraine days in individuals with episodic migraine. “It’s a way of enabling people to access various state-of-the-art behavioral techniques to use alongside their existing medication to offer additional relief,” said Tepper.