Psychotherapy is as effective as pharmacotherapy in the treatment of depression in primary care and combined treatment is better than both. Read our new open access network meta-analysis in the Annals of Family Medicine Eirini Karyotaki Toshi_FRKW doi.org/10.1370/afm.26…

Don’t forget to join the launch of my webinar on the potential of digital interventions to improve mental health care for depression, today at 4pm CET at The Mental Elf #DepressionSolvingTheToll youtube.com/watch?v=_MbjH3…

Therapies for depression have only modest effects. Join the launch of my webinar on Thursday at 4p CET to learn how the effects can be improved. nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/ #DepressionSolvingTheToll youtube.com/watch?v=hKfF0f…

How to stop stigma: eight recommendations from The Lancet Commission on ending stigma and discrimination in mental health The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

Don’t forget to watch the launch of my webinar today at 4pm CET, on a research agenda for reducing the disease burden of depression in populations: #DepressionSolvingTheToll youtube.com/watch?v=koOJXb…

We have a winner for the DGOF Best Paper Award 2024: Congratulations to Thomas Reiter and Ramona Schoedel! 🥳 And thanks to this year's Award sponsor Bilendi & respondi!

Therapy = antidepressant in this new large trial of #depression with heart failure: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38231511/ The #therapy they used - Behavioral Activation - is often misunderstood as "activity scheduling." It involves much more. Here's a nice book on it: amzn.to/3U1daj3

Paper published 🥳 In our new paper we investigate methodological challenges while analyzing passive measures — choosing a time scale for summarizing and analyzing the data📱Despite its importance, the choice of temporal resolution is rarely justified. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/25…

Interesting new study finds higher temperature in severe depression. Differences small & driven by small N (dark red, wide CI in second image). Curious if there are alternative explanations for this finding (e.g., phys comorbidity, medication, severe transdiagn. stress marker).

Excited for Dr. Michael Mullarkey to kick off the Personalizing Psychotherapy (now PCTPC) journal club series this year!! Join us 🙌NEXT THURSDAY, Feb. 22nd at 11am ET 🙌to learn about and discuss responsible use of LLMs in a mental health context.

Now published in Nature Mental Health, our new article linking #bullying to distrust & #mentalhealth problems in 10,000 youth followed from late childhood through adolescence Press release: uclahealth.org/news/study-fin… PDF: rdcu.be/dywgP Article: nature.com/articles/s4422…

New study finds that “neurodiversity characteristics” are best explained using a bifactor model with one general N factor”. I’ll just refer to my D factor blog, same problems. eiko-fried.com/does-the-d-dis…

CRESP-2, the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention, represents a unique collaboration across six universities and multiple disciplines to address suicide, a priority area in public health. Download our final report here 👉 bit.ly/3utpxdq

Treatment manuals of psychological interventions should be freely available for several reasons. Action is needed now. Read our new open-access article in Lancet psychiatry. With Mark van Ommeren and Niall Boyce doi.org/10.1016/S2215-…

What is the acceptance of smart sensing in psychotherapy patients (e.g., using smartphone sensors to monitor health symptoms or to assist in diagnosis)? Find out in our new article: frontiersin.org/journals/digit…

Change from baseline in the placebo arm of an RCT is not a valid way to estimate the placebo effect. Why? Because you can’t estimate the effect of placebo without any data on the counterfactual “no placebo” outcome. Read more here: academic.oup.com/aje/article/19…

How can mental health professionals use machine-learning algorithms based on natural behaviors in the prediction of mental states in their clinical practice? (Open access) 🥳 heleen riper Khadicha Amarti Ward van Breda paolo fusar poli Eirini Karyotaki Pim Cuijpers biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-…

I'm presenting "Measuring active elements of psychological therapies to understand what works for whom and how" on June20 @ 6pmCET. work by myself, Nora Barnes-Horowitz, Courtney Forbes & Michelle Craske (Anxiety and Depression Research Center at UCLA). DM Jessica Fritz/Marilyn Piccirillo/Person-Centered Tx & Prevention Collaborative for the link

New paper co-authored by yours truly now online, led by Yannik Terhorst: Heterogeneity of Treatment Effects in Internet- and Mobile-Based Interventions for Depression. Overall, we did not find evidence for heterogeneous treatment effects in IMIs. However, this might be