Accessibility settings

Published on in Vol 13 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/84424, first published .
Elderly woman looking at laptop screen, with a mouse and notepad on table.

Functional Outcome Prediction in Young Adults With Mental Health Symptoms Using Machine Learning and Large Language Models: Longitudinal Observational Study

Functional Outcome Prediction in Young Adults With Mental Health Symptoms Using Machine Learning and Large Language Models: Longitudinal Observational Study

Pavol Mikolas   1, 2 , MD, PhD ;   Fabian Huth   1 , MSc ;   Kyra Bröckel-Bundt   1 , PhD ;   Christina Berndt   1 , MSc ;   Julia Martini   1 , Prof Dr ;   Birgit Maicher   1 , MSc ;   Michael Marxen   1 , PhD ;   Falk Gerrik Verhees   1 , Dr med, MPH ;   Paula Marie Henneberg   1 , MSc ;   Christoph Vogelbacher   3, 4, 5 , PhD ;   Andreas Jansen   3, 4, 5 , Prof Dr ;   Tilo Kircher   3, 4, 5 , Prof Dr ;   Irina Falkenberg   3, 4, 5 , Prof Dr ;   Florian Thomas-Odenthal   3, 4, 5 , PhD ;   Martin Lambert   6 , Prof Dr ;   Vivien Kraft   6 , MSc ;   Gregor Leicht   6 , PhD ;   Christoph Mulert   5, 6, 7 , Prof Dr ;   Andreas J Fallgatter   8, 9 , Prof Dr ;   Thomas Ethofer   8, 9, 10 , Prof Dr ;   Anne Rau   8 , PhD ;   Karolina Leopold   11 , Dr med ;   Andreas Bechdolf   11 , Prof Dr ;   Reif Andreas   12 , Prof Dr ;   Silke Matura   12 , PhD ;   Jonathan Repple   12, 13, 14 , Prof Dr ;   Felix Bermpohl   15 , Prof Dr ;   Jana Fiebig   15 ;   Thomas Stamm   15, 16 , Prof Dr ;   Christoph U Correll   17, 18, 19 , Prof Dr ;   Georg Juckel   20 , Prof Dr ;   Vera Flasbeck   20 , PhD ;   Isabella C Wiest   21 , Dr med, MSc ;   Jakob N Kather   21 , Prof Dr ;   Udo Dannlowski   14, 22, 23, 24 , Prof Dr ;   Eva Mennigen   1 , PhD ;   Philipp Ritter   1 , PhD ;   Michael Bauer   1 , Prof Dr ;   Andrea Pfennig   1 , Prof Dr

1 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

2 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Thuringia, Germany

3 Department of Psychiatry, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

4 Core-Facility Brain Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany

5 Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior (CMBB), University of Marburg and Justus Liebig University Giessen, Marburg and Giessen, Germany

6 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

7 Centre for Psychiatry, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Germany

8 Tübingen Center for Mental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

9 Partner Site Tübingen, Deutsches Zentrum für Psychische Gesundheit, Tübingen, Germany

10 Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, University of Tübingen, Tuebingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

11 Vivantes Hospital Am Urban and Vivantes Hospital Im Friedrichshain, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

12 Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

13 Cooperative Brain Imaging Center - CoBIC, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

14 Institute for Translational Psychiatry, University of Münster, Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

15 Charité Campus Mitte, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

16 Department of Clinical Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Neuruppin, Brandenburg, Germany

17 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

18 Department of Psychiatry, Northwell Health, Zucker Hillside Hospital, New York, NY, United States

19 Department of Psychiatry and Molecular Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, NY, United States

20 Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, LWL University Hospital, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany

21 Else Kroener Fresenius Center for Digital Health, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

22 Department of Psychiatry, Medical School and University Medical Center OWL, Protestant Hospital of the Bethel Foundation, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

23 German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Jena Magdeburg Halle, Germany

24 Center for Intervention and Research on Adaptive and Maladaptive Brain Circuits Underlying Mental Health (C-I-R-C), Jena Magdeburg Halle, Germany

Corresponding Author:

  • Pavol Mikolas, MD, PhD
  • Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
  • Jena University Hospital
  • Philosophenweg 3
  • Jena, Thuringia 07743
  • Germany
  • Phone: 49 36419300
  • Email: pavol.mikolas@ukdd.de