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 – 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. “We want to provide something that is a strong evidence-based treatment for folks that generally don’t have it,” Jacobson said.

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 – Nicholas Jacobson, associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, talks about the first clinical trial of a gen-AI therapy chatbot conducted on Therabot, software developed in his lab. “We chose this area because we seek to have real world impacts and there is a massive shortage of providers,” 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.

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 Therabot. “Therabot is not limited to an office and can go anywhere a patient goes,” Heinz said. “It was available around the clock for challenges that arose in daily life and could walk users through strategies to handle them in real time. But the feature that allows AI to be so effective is also what confers its risk — patients can say anything to it, and it can say anything back.”

Read article – Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is featured in a story about the study he led on Therabot, the first gen-AI therapy chatbot to undergo a clinical trial. “The effects that we see strongly mirror what you would see in the best evidence-based trials of psychotherapy,” Jacobson said. (Picked up by NHPR, Iowa Public Radio, New Orleans Public Radio, Maine Public, North Carolina Public Radio, Cape, Coast and Islands, Wyoming Public Radio, Virginia Public Radio, Hawaii Public Radio, Kansas Public Radio, San Diego Public Radio, and several more.)

Read article – Geisel faculty member Steven Woloshin, MD, professor of health policy and clinical practice, is featured in a New York Times article about three doctors who fell in love with a fresco by Fra Angelico and pledged to restore it so it could get its due when a blockbuster exhibition opens this fall.

Read article – Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry,  is featured in an article about Dartmouth’s Therabot, the first therapy chatbot to undergo a clinical trial. “With Therabot, folks will access and did access it throughout the course of the trial in their daily life, in moments where they need it the most,” Jacobson said.