Jessie Tenenbaum

Genetic and Phenotypic Associations With Sustained Antidepressant Use in Major Depressive Disorder This cohort study evaluates phenotypic and genetic heterogeneity in major depressive disorder.

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#precisionMedicine #Mentalhealth #depression #MDD

Psychiatric Documentation and Management in Primary Care With Artificial Intelligence Scribe Use This cohort study using a matched case-control design characterizes differences in documentation and treatment of psychiatric symptoms in primary care outpatient notes generated using ambient scribes ...

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#AI #Scribe #MentalHealth #Psych

Why ‘quantum proteins’ could be the next big thing in biology Fluorescent proteins with a quantum upgrade could offer unprecedented views inside cells.

Why ‘quantum proteins’ could be the next big thing in biology www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#quantumproteins 🤯

Updates to the ‘bible’ for mental-health conditions will miss the mark — is it time to ditch the DSM? Instead of trying to refine diagnoses, we should focus on how best to give people the care that they need.

Updates to the ‘bible’ for mental-health conditions will miss the mark — is it time to ditch the DSM? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An argument for moving toward focus on treatment rather than labels.

#mentalhealth #DSM

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

I’m not seeing evidence for “riddled with errors” nor highly monetized, especially considering the cost of normal textbooks. What am I missing?

Reflections on the Value of an AI-assisted Textbook When a UCLA professor debuted the custom textbook a year ago, other faculty criticized it as a potential threat to teaching and learning. But the textbook boosted student engagement and freed up instr...

It's great seeing pioneers (even in the humanities!) exploring ways to use #AI to increase student engagement and learning, and to give them more time for interactive discussions in class.

#HigherEd

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Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear The vision of human-level machine intelligence laid out by Alan Turing in the 1950s is now a reality. Eyes unclouded by dread or hype will help us to prepare for what comes next.

Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I didn't know about the vampire aspect when I went to see it in a theater. Boy was I surprised by that plot twist. 😆

Biological insights into schizophrenia from ancestrally diverse populations - Nature Genome-wide association studies incorporating data for populations of African ancestry provide an expanded view of the genetic basis of schizophrenia, which has previously been studied mainly in Europ...

Great to see this work being done. I hope we see much more of it in other disease areas.

#schizophrenia #GWAS #diversity

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dear #Europe,
We're so sorry. And embarrassed.
-Us

Note- if human docs are available, by all means use them instead. But if they're not, and it's chatbot or nothing...

I agree with you, except that last sentence. If a chatbot leads to one person's death, but saves 100, I might be ok with that. I'm not sure, and I definitely understand the counterpoint. One could compare it to the famous trolley problem where the chatbot is the person at the lever.

It also feels a bit Ameri-centric to worry first about who to sue...

I agree it's an important concern (one of the "usual caveats" I mention) but in areas where there are NO MH docs, I think it's worth a cost/benefit analysis. How many lives could be saved, if we risk it?
Reasonable people may disagree....

The chatbot will see you now: how AI is being trained to spot mental health issues in any language Calls to a clinic in Uganda are helping create a therapy algorithm that works in local languages, as specialists look to technology to address the global mental health crisis

Potentially a great use of chatbots for global mental health. (with the usual caveats...)

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

#MentalHealth #GlobalHealth #LLM #AI #ChatBot

New in NCMJ- Dr. Plasencia and I explore a statewide health data utility (HDU) as an opportunity to protect coverage for our state’s vulnerable populations.
We focus on #Latine but the approach benefits many other groups as well!

ncmedicaljournal.com/article/1540...

#HDU #VulnerablePop #LatinX

Virtual reality opens doors for older people to build closer connections in real life Many retirement developments serve as a tranquil refuge for older people who can no longer travel to faraway places or engage in bold adventures.

I love this. :)

apnews.com/article/virt... 
Virtual reality opens doors for older people to build closer connections in real life

#Aging #Connection #VR

The Most Powerful Politics Influencers Barely Post About Politics New research shows that social media creators have enormous influence over their audiences' politics—especially those who don't normally share political content.

Columbia and Harvard researchers find that apolitical creators are three times more persuasive than political pundits. Trust and parasocial bonds allow these influencers to shift policy preferences with unique efficacy.

Natural Language Processing and Social Determinants of Health in Mental Health Research: AI-Assisted Scoping Review Background: The use of natural language processing (NLP) in mental health research is increasing, with a wide range of applications and datasets being investigated. Objective: This review aims to summ...

Cool work I missed using #LLMs for a scoping review on use of #SDOH in #mentalHealth research.

mental.jmir.org/2025/1/e67192

I Left the CDC 100 Days Ago. My Worst Fears About the Agency Are Coming True "Things have not improved," writes Dr. Debra Houry. "They have worsened. And Congress has still failed to act."

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#datadrivenpolicy #Mahahaha

Women seem to retract fewer papers than men — but why? In an analysis of nearly 900 retracted medical-research studies, the number of female authors is disproportionately low.

Women seem to retract fewer papers than men — but why? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Intriguing.

Transforming mental health systems: The role of embedded researchers in advancing learning health systems Background This commentary explores the critical role of embedded researchers in advancing Learning Health Systems (LHS) within the context of Canada's mental health systems. Context The Canadian ...

Transforming mental health systems: The role of embedded researchers in advancing learning health systems - Field - 2025 - Learning Health Systems - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#mentalhealth #LHS

Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging.

Here’s my response:

Definitely going to go back to this post next time I need a professional pep talk! 😄

😊😊😊

😊 (also, who are you??)

Achievement unlocked.
What a thrill to have my paper featured in @ciminoj.bsky.social’s #AMIA2025 Year in Review! 😁🤓🤩
#LHS #LearningHealthSystem #LearningPublicHealthSystem #DataDrivenPolicy

Ps P68 :)
#AMIA2025

I’ll need to figure out how to be in two places at once (might be there only the second half of poster session) but looking forward to presenting our #AMIA2025 poster on behalf of NC HealthConnex (NC’s statewide #HIE) describing our work to transition to a health data utility- #HDU