‘First Therapy Chatbot Trial Yields Mental Health Benefits’ (Dartmouth News – March 27, 2025 – Full Article)
Article Excerpt: Dartmouth researchers conducted the first-ever clinical trial of a generative AI-powered therapy chatbot and found that the software resulted in significant improvements in participants’ symptoms, according to results published March 27 in NEJM AI…
“The improvements in symptoms we observed were comparable to what is reported for traditional outpatient therapy, suggesting this AI-assisted approach may offer clinically meaningful benefits,” says Nicholas Jacobson, the study’s senior author and an associate professor of biomedical data science and psychiatry at the Geisel School of Medicine.
“There is no replacement for in-person care, but there are nowhere near enough providers to go around,” Jacobson says. For every available provider in the United States, there’s an average of 1,600 patients with depression or anxiety alone, he says.
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