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Columbia Psychiatry @columbiapsych.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Could smartphones help address teen depression? Columbia researchers led by @isaactreves.bsky.social found that AI models can spot negative self-talk in teens' smartphone typing and predict worsening moods. An app could then point them toward support. www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/smartph...
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Smartphones and Teen Depression: There Might Be an App for That
Columbia researchers have found that AI’s large language models can analyze teens’ smartphone data and predict the emergence of depressed moods within days.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
what a story! it's crazy that it snowballed like that. my dealings with the press in my PhD involved some 'lipstick on a pig' , but it mostly felt harmless. this is another level! thanks for sharing
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thank you to my wonderful team! @paulbloom.bsky.social @auerbachlab.bsky.social @dpagliaccio.bsky.social @orsonxu.bsky.social @prof-nick-allen.bsky.social and many more.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I am excited about the potential of this approach to intervene on negative self-talk with personalized CBT skills in daily life, or to display helpful feedback to clinicians like 'digital dashboards'.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Using these accurate models, we found evidence that daily negative self-talk was a prospective indicator of distress and depressive episodes in teens.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Using context-sensitive and accurate models was a must for us! My wonderful research assistants rigorously coded thousands of messages for sentiment, and we explored a variety of models. Ultimately, fine-tuned GPT-4-mini models performed best.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We used HIPAA-protected GPT models to extract negative self-talk from keyboard entries in a large sample of adolescents oversampled for current and remitted depression. Negative self-talk was classified as negative sentiment co-occurring with self-reference in single entries.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
How can AI be used to support digital interventions for youth? Happy to share our new publication that addresses this question by using AI to detect negative self-talk in depressed adolescents' smartphone language!
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
given my own work showing that multivariate replications are extremely challenging for individual differences studies, e.g. www.nature.com/articles/s44.... I think this distinction needs to be carefully made to not give people a false sense when study planning. happy to talk offline
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
wonderful paper and such important modelling work! I have a serious concern about the interpretation of the multivariate findings in 2b. In a nutshell, you are not showing that a given distributed multivariate marker will be replicated , just that information will be detected consistently.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
fantastic paper! kudos to you and Charles @ch-verdonk.bsky.social
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
@rebeccasaxe.bsky.social teaches an amazing open science course for graduate students in the MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences department!
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Feasibility of Precision Functional Mapping in Youth Multi-Echo fMRI Data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
important null result!
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Excited to share this paper! My co-authors and I did a deep dive into smartphone language to understand indicators of suicide risk in adolescents. One of our goals was to compare AI indicators to clinician ratings. Take a look!
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
great perspective! I would love to hear your thoughts on alignment and synthesis with passive smartphone language sensing approaches.
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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 24/02/2026
Perspective: Open-ended responses can improve ESM data by grounding it in real-world experiences and phenomena as they are experienced in everyday life. Handbooks and guidelines on ESM should include sections on collecting and analyzing open-ended text items. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Experience sampling methods require more than numbers - Communications Psychology
The experience sampling method (ESM) collects real-time reports of people’s feelings, actions, and surroundings, and originally included both numerical and open-ended responses. Whereas most studies t...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
When attention falters: brain, breathing, and behavioral signals of lapses in interoceptive attention www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Thank you to my wonderful co-authors. @skhalsa.bsky.social @ch-verdonk.bsky.social @sgoldbergphd.bsky.social @jepusto.bsky.social and others
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
c) studies could incorporate objective measures of interoceptive accuracy (e.g. respiratory threshold discrimination) to examine relationships between subjective experience and objective signals.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
b) the vast majority of studies employed the MAIA self-report scale, making it difficult to disentangle differences in subjective experiences
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
a) no studies incorporated youth, which is a critical period for emotional and cognitive development.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We make a number of recommendations for future mindfulness research:
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Instead, attitudes may be key. Namely, a more accepting and non-judgmental attitude towards all experiences.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We also were unable to find any effects of intervention length, dosage, or quality. Effects were similar for interventions compared to active or passive controls. This suggests that the meditation practice itself might not be key for interoception benefits.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
However, there were a number of questions that we were unable to conclusively answer. We don't currently know what aspects of subjective interoception change the most, who benefits the most, and how changes are related to decreases in mental distress.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Our meta-analysis strongly supports this theory, finding consistent, low heterogeneity effects of mindfulness trainings beyond control conditions on self-reported interoception. We are also confident in this finding because there was no evidence of publication bias.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Self-reported interoception refers to the subjective experience, regulation, and awareness and of internal bodily signals. Mindfulness may have mental health benefits because it helps cultivate more adaptive and positive subjective interoception.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
How does mindfulness change body awareness? Excited to share our meta-analysis on mindfulness training and #interoception. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Nice to see this out! Congratulations!
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Thanks to my co-authors! @sgoldbergphd.bsky.social @paulbloom.bsky.social @auerbachlab.bsky.social
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Future studies could consist of developing better personalization algorithms to improve signals of focus and calm and conduct observational studies to witness the use of devices in the wild.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
My fellow researchers and I are bullish about the possibility of technology making mindfulness more accessible and fun for new people, but bearish about the ability of consumer-grade technology to measure signals with high fidelity. Lab-based studies with fMRI and EEG may perform better.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Small decreases in stress are observed, but no effects on cognition, mindfulness, brain measures from the devices, and physiology are observed. Placebo effects have not been conclusively controlled for.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Our findings show that there is so far comparatively little evidence that you can enhance your meditation with devices like MUSE.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
There is a lot of hype out there for devices like MUSE that can show you your real-time brainwaves while you meditate. These devices convert brainwaves into signals of 'calm' or 'focus', and the goal is to modulate them.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Can neurotech devices help you meditate??? Our meta-analysis analyzing the results of RCTs and randomized studies of neurotechnology assesses that question, published in #JMIR, www.jmir.org/2025/1/e68204
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This research could not have been conducted without the support of my co-authors , as well as NIH funding.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
For the sake of neuromodulation paradigms to enhance attention and facilitate meditation, we may want to focus more on states that are sensitive to actual performance.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This suggests a dissociation between brain correlates of overt task differences (motivation, arousal) vs brain correlates of attentional focus .
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This supports the possibility of different network configurations during tasks. Interestingly, a set of different states (like a globally connected state) was related to fluctuations within-people during the task itself.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Then we examined breathing vs rest, as is typical in most studies, but also within-task fluctuations in attention, which is a more novel step. Using dynamic brain state analysis, we uncovered states that were more present during the breath counting , like a state involving the default-mode network.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
We asked seventy adolescents to spend 20 minutes counting their breaths in the MRI scanner (breath counting is an important stabilizing practice in many meditation traditions), and then also imaged them at rest. We collected performance and physiology during the breath counting.
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
What happens in the brain during a breathing meditation? I had the chance to tackle this question in a recent fMRI study, published in Cerebral Cortex, shorturl.at/yQJQQ, with @christianwebb.bsky.social, @neuroperson.bsky.social , and others!
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Simon Goldberg, PhD @sgoldbergphd.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
We're hiring a research specialist to help run a set of large-scale randomized trials optimizing a well-being app. We're super excited about this work and hoping to find an equally excited research specialist to join our team and make the magic happen! Details here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...
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Research Specialist - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary: The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Healthy Minds (CHM) is a leader in conducting science - in and out of the lab - on how to nurture emotional well-being in daily life, co...
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
absolutely- how well does self-reported meditation time function as a continuous variable?
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
thanks for featuring our work! we hope it provides a useful approach for big data approaches to mindfulness!
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isaactreves.bsky.social @isaactreves.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
@neuroperson.bsky.social !!
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