ReviewThe Psychiatric quarterly2022
Artificial Intelligence and Chatbots in Psychiatry.
Review in The Psychiatric quarterly, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 228 citations in OpenAlex.
- The use of chatbots as interventions for mental health conditions: scoping review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Pooled it
- Unleashing the potential of chatbots in mental health: bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Artificial intelligence in ADHD: a global perspective on research hotspots, trends and clinical applications.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Exploring the Role of Mobile Apps for Insomnia in Depression: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- Self-Administered Interventions Based on Natural Language Processing Models for Reducing Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JMIR mental health · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of a Chatbot-Based Intervention on Stress and Health-Related Parameters in a Stressed Sample: Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mental health · 2024Trial
- The benefits and future potential of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) on mental health: a Delphi study.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2026Article
- Youth supporting youth online: A content analysis of peer counselling at the online chat of @ease.Internet interventions · 2026Article
- Deep learning for autism detection using clinical notes: A comparison of transfer learning for a transparent and black-box approach.Artificial intelligence in medicine · 2026Article
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- A bridge, not a destination: YouTube viewer perspectives on AI mental health support and human therapy.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- AI in Psychiatric Education and Training From 2016 to 2024: Scoping Review of Trends.JMIR medical education · 2025Article
- Post-pandemic mental health: Understanding the global psychological burden and charting future research priorities.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Review
- Psychology student and mental health practitioner experiences of and perspectives on Client101, a virtual client chatbot training tool.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Multimodal Sensing-Enabled Large Language Models for Automated Emotional Regulation: A Review of Current Technologies, Opportunities, and Challenges.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Artificial intelligence (AI) in psychotherapy: A challenging frontier.Australasian psychiatry : bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists · 2025Article
- Artificial Intelligence for Psychotherapy: A Review of the Current State and Future Directions.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2025Review
- Artificial Intelligence-Based Mobile Phone Apps for Child Mental Health: Comprehensive Review and Content Analysis.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2025Review
- The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Managing Bipolar Disorder: A New Frontier in Patient Care.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Assessing and alleviating state anxiety in large language models.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
The utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) in psychiatry has risen over the past several years to meet the growing need for improved access to mental health solutions. Additionally, shortages of mental health providers during the COVID-19 pandemic have continued to exacerbate the burden of mental illness worldwide. AI applications already in existence include those enabled to assist with psychiatric diagnoses, symptom tracking, disease course prediction, and psychoeducation. Modalities of AI mental health care delivery include availability through the internet, smartphone applications, and digital gaming. Here we review emerging AI-based interventions in the form of chat and therapy bots, specifically conversational applications that teach the user emotional coping mechanisms and provide support for people with communication difficulties, computer generated images of faces that form the basis of avatar therapy, and intelligent animal-like robots with new advances in digital psychiatry. We discuss the implications of incorporating AI chatbots into clinical practice and offer perspectives on how these AI-based interventions will further impact the field of psychiatry.
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