{"id":25303,"date":"2026-01-22T13:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=25303"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:54:47","slug":"using-ai-for-advice-or-other-personal-reasons-is-linked-to-depression-and-anxiety-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2026\/using-ai-for-advice-or-other-personal-reasons-is-linked-to-depression-and-anxiety-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Using AI for Advice or Other Personal Reasons Is Linked to Depression And Anxiety\u2014<em>NBC News<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=69c76734e8&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read article<\/a>\u2014Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is quoted about a study finding an association between using AI chatbots and symptoms of depression and anxiety. \u201cWe don\u2019t know enough about this,\u201d Jacobson said. \u201cI think we need more studies to really understand why it is those groups in particular are more likely to use this, certainly.\u201d (Picked up by <a title=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=0a95e93924&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=0a95e93924&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-outlook-id=\"abe7812d-14d1-4a05-9df5-8291bc6c23b7\">Yahoo! News<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=69c76734e8&amp;e=abffd9bbab\">Read article<\/a>\u2014Nicholas Jacobson, an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry, is quoted about a study finding an association between using AI chatbots and symptoms of depression and anxiety. \u201cWe don\u2019t know enough about this,\u201d Jacobson said. \u201cI think we need more studies to really understand why it is those groups in particular are more likely to use this, certainly.\u201d (Picked up by <a title=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=0a95e93924&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" href=\"https:\/\/dartmouth.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2de137c4974374fa3c312663&amp;id=0a95e93924&amp;e=abffd9bbab\" data-outlook-id=\"abe7812d-14d1-4a05-9df5-8291bc6c23b7\">Yahoo! News<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1225,1323,360,320],"class_list":["post-25303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-ai","tag-anxiety","tag-depression","tag-research-2","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-6A7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25305,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25303\/revisions\/25305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}