Come work with me, Janna, Jonas, and Bart at Leiden University :). #MentalHealth #Psychology #PsychSciSky #academicsky

Eiko Fried@eikofried.bsky.social · last mo.

1/ We have a PhD position open on 'Mental Disorders as Harmful Stable States'. If you know students interested in the intersection of mental health & statistical modeling (EMA & time series), please encourage them to apply. www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3621...

1/ We have a PhD position open on 'Mental Disorders as Harmful Stable States'. If you know students interested in the intersection of mental health & statistical modeling (EMA & time series), please encourage them to apply. www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3621...

PhD Position on "Mental disorders as harmful stable states"

PhD Position on “Mental disorders as harmful stable states” The departments Clinical Psychology and Methodology & Statistics, at the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden Univers...

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Photo from our recent lab dinner. Science is a team sport, and I feel incredibly fortunate to work with such an amazing group of colleagues and trainees. Beyond the papers and grants, it’s the people who make this work meaningful. Grateful for this team and excited for what’s ahead. Cheers! 🍻

In addition to a hiring PhD in ~October & hopefully some PhDs and postdocs ~February, if anyone would like to work with me as part of eg a Marie-Curie or something similar, please do get in touch. Topics include depression, classification, measurement, systems, time-series, & theory building.

Looking forward to SPR 2026 in Osaka 🇯🇵 next week, where members of our lab will be participating in several sessions focused on AI-informed interventions, digital mental health, personalization, measurement, and psychotherapy process. If you’ll be at SPR, swing by and say hello! lnkd.in/gpcYJ3Pd

Using causal ML and data from ~90,000 NHS patients, we found that only 31% received the treatment the algorithm identified as optimal. Recovery rates were 11 percentage points higher among patients with the strongest recommendations who received their indicated treatment. lnkd.in/e5Muc4BJ

Our lab will be presenting at APS in Barcelona #APS26BCN later this week. If you’re interested in digital phenotyping, passive sensing, adaptive interventions, and emotion dynamics in adolescent depression, come by our symposia and say hi. @hadarfisher.bsky.social and I will be there

I dug into NSDUH data on depression in U.S. teens (12-17) and made the below figure. Rates increased far more sharply for girls than boys, peaking around COVID before modest declines. Shaded region = % with depression receiving mental health treatment. Both depression and unmet need remain high.

For some reason, the new report of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health is geo-locked, and cannot be accessed from the Netherlands (or, I assume, from anywhere outside the US). As US based VPN solves the issue. Any thoughts why this would be the case? nsduhweb.rti.org/respweb/home...

Some evidence of decreasing depression rates among adolescents from the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health. 60% of teens with depression reported receiving mental health treatment (31% taking meds) www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/d...

Honored to have been part of the Science of Change symposium at URI, celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. James Prochaska. I shared our work using AI and machine learning for real-time detection and scalable interventions in adolescent depression via smartphones and wearables.

Congrats to our lab postdoc Poorvesh Dongre on his IH ’26 (ACM Interactive Health) acceptance in Porto 🇵🇹 EmBot: wearable-triggered stress detection + LLM support, shaped by mental health experts. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2604.04915 #DigitalMentalHealth #LLM #Wearables

The CANDLab at Yale is hiring a new full-time research assistant! Excellent opportunity to gain post-bacc experience before applying to PhD programs in child and adolescent clinical psychology and neuroscience. 🧠 candlab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/YaleCANDLab_RA_2026.pdf

We're raising money (matched dollar for dollar!) to support paid research experiences for underrepresented students in our department at McGill. No amount too small to show support for science training these days.... crowdfunding.mcgill.ca/ui/main/p/pr...

This Deep Dive covers work by @hadarfisher.bsky.social @nigeljaffe.bsky.social @diegopizzagalli.bsky.social @christianwebb.bsky.social exploring whether smartphone passive sensors & LLMs can track activation in adolescents w/ anhedonia receiving behavioral activation therapy youtu.be/K1Lo50QBcQM?...

Can we track therapeutic change outside the clinic?

YouTube video by NPP - Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN)

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Great work on this important meta-analysis Hadar!

Hadar Fisher@hadarfisher.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Now out in npj Digital Medicine 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our systematic review and meta-analysis examines how well language-based models detect depression from text. We reviewed 123 studies (40,000 + observations) using NLP and machine learning.

I'll be giving a talk in the #CNS2026 Rising Star session on Saturday. Come say hi if you're around!

Machine learning analyses in the MYRIAD trial found only clinically trivial personalization of school-based mindfulness for adolescent #Depression prevention, underscoring limited differential benefit in universal programs. ja.ma/4qUhbCL

John Torous, MD, speaks with Christian A. Webb, PhD, of Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital, about the limits of population-level prediction and the need for more potent and targeted interventions for #YouthMentalHealth. 🎧 Listen now: ja.ma/3OSGiIw

Beyond the headline results, we discuss why meaningful personalization proved elusive – and what promising directions may move the field forward – on the @jamapsychiatry.com podcast: 🎙️https://edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/audio-player/19039530

Predicting Adolescent Response to School-Based Mindfulness

Interview with Christian A. Webb, PhD, author of Predicting Adolescent Response to School-Based Mindfulness: A Secondary Analysis of the MYRIAD Trial. Hosted by John Torous, MD.

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Christian Webb, PhD@christianwebb.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New paper from our team: Can ML identify which adolescents benefit most from school-based mindfulness? In 8,376 students (MYRIAD trial), models detected statistically significant but clinically negligible differential effects (d ≈ .07–.08). Precision prevention is hard...

New paper from our team: Can ML identify which adolescents benefit most from school-based mindfulness? In 8,376 students (MYRIAD trial), models detected statistically significant but clinically negligible differential effects (d ≈ .07–.08). Precision prevention is hard...

JAMA Psychiatry@jamapsychiatry.com · 6mo ago

Machine learning analyses in the MYRIAD trial found only clinically trivial personalization of school-based mindfulness for adolescent #Depression prevention, underscoring limited differential benefit in universal programs. ja.ma/3OkeH2P

Machine learning analyses in the MYRIAD trial found only clinically trivial personalization of school-based mindfulness for adolescent #Depression prevention, underscoring limited differential benefit in universal programs. ja.ma/3OkeH2P

⭐ NEW PAPER ⭐ on a Bayesian approach to sample size calculations for external validation of risk prediction models - account for uncertainty in the assumed true performance of the model - plus calculate assurance probabilities & the value of information onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Interesting to see how our lab's recruitment sources have shifted over the last 3 years (see plot). FB/Instagram used to pull 100+ responses/month, now much less productive. Methods like flyers and mailing lists remain steady. Curious if any other labs are seeing this or have found new methods?

Matthew 25:40-45 “Then he will say to them... ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For... I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Q: Pope Leo cited Matthew 25:35 to critique Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda. How would you respond to Pope Leo in scripture? MIKE JOHNSON: Sovereign borders are biblical and right and just. It's not because we hate the people on the outside. It's because we love the people on the inside.

The special issue call for papers is now live on the JCCP website: “Innovations in Digital Phenotyping for Scalable Personalization of Mental Health Care.” Details and submission information are available here: www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Christian Webb, PhD@christianwebb.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨 Upcoming JCCP Special Issue: "Innovations in Digital Phenotyping for Scalable Personalization of Mental Health Care" Edited by Sigal Zilcha-Mano, Roee Admon, & me. 🗓 Pre-proposals due March 2, 2026 Will show on JCCP website soon (sharing early for planning) ⬇️ Call for Papers tinyurl.com/3tkps63c

🚨 Upcoming JCCP Special Issue: "Innovations in Digital Phenotyping for Scalable Personalization of Mental Health Care" Edited by Sigal Zilcha-Mano, Roee Admon, & me. 🗓 Pre-proposals due March 2, 2026 Will show on JCCP website soon (sharing early for planning) ⬇️ Call for Papers tinyurl.com/3tkps63c

🚨 Upcoming JCCP Special Issue: "Innovations in Digital Phenotyping for Scalable Personalization of Mental Health Care" Edited by Sigal Zilcha-Mano, Roee Admon, & me. 🗓 Pre-proposals due March 2, 2026 Will show on JCCP website soon (sharing early for planning) ⬇️ Call for Papers tinyurl.com/3tkps63c

Built a pipeline that automatically runs each morning and pulls new papers + preprints, merges them with CV (recent pubs + grants), and prepares an LLM-ready summary of emerging research directions and relevant funding opportunities. First pass, please improve. OSF: lnkd.in/ev3T2ibn

We're hiring! The Computational Clinical Science Lab @ Yale is seeking a full-time lab manager/research coordinator to start in early summer 2026. For more information about the position and to apply: forms.gle/LtQwVgPUfaGk... Please share widely & consider applying!