Methods and New Tools in Mental Health Research

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2026

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Benchmarking Large Language Models for Sentiment Analysis in Pregnancy-Related Weight Discussions on Reddit: Human Performance-Aligned Comparative Evaluation Study

Rezaur Rashid, Brianna M White, Fekede Asefa Kumsa, Arash Shaban-Nejad

JMIR Form Res 2026 (Nov 13); 10:e92821

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Relational Ecological Momentary Assessment: A Viewpoint on the Relational Decision Space in Digital Mental Health

David Jonas Fisher, Lars Rossen

JMIR Form Res 2026 (Nov 13); 10:e99699

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The Spectrum & Clinical Tools for Reliable Assessment (SPECTRA) Evidence Stack for Adult Neurodivergence Assessment: Framework Development and Synthetic Data Evaluation

Lucas Fortaleza, Lenifer Siqueira Landim, Giovana Melo Bezerra Teixeira, Charlene Coleman, Ana Maria Luna Neri Benevides

JMIR Form Res 2026 (Nov 12); 10:e106266

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An Online Cross-Sectional Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) Positive Valence Assessment Study With Patients With a Severe Mental Illness: Methodological Evaluation

Marit Broer, Marjolein E A Barendse, Laura van den Brink-Steinmann, Anne L Snijders, Marisha N Meijer, Sofie Paludanus, Monique van der Weijden-Germann, Robert M Bilder, Roel Ophoff, Neeltje E M van Haren

JMIR Form Res 2026 (Nov 11); 10:e86998

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AI-Derived Emotional States and Trajectories in Real-World Mental Health Sessions: Large-Scale Observational Study

Kelsey McAlister, Courtney Jewell, Landry Huffman, Elizabeth Knight, Jennifer Huberty

JMIR Form Res 2026 (Nov 10); 10:e104318

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Detecting Emotional Signals of Relationship Well-Being Using AI: A Cross-Sectional Comparison of Transformer-Based and Lexicon-Based Models for Couples Therapy Research

Alejandro Saavedra-Roa, Claudia Pineda-Marin, Pablo Vallejo-Medina, Adrián Montesano

JMIR AI 2026 (Nov 09); 5:e94097

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Modeling of Therapist-Client Dynamics in Psychotherapy Using Large Language Model–Based Assessments: Retrospective Observational Study of 1573 Psychotherapy Sessions

Angela H Chen, Siwei Jin, Canwen Wang, Holly A Swartz, Tongshuang Wu, Robert E Kraut, Haiyi Zhu

JMIR Ment Health 2026 (Nov 05); 13:e95389

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Social Desirability Bias in Health Screening Questionnaire Responses Generated by OpenAI Models: Quantitative Experimental Study

Andrew O'Malley

JMIR Form Res 2026 (Nov 03); 10:e92057

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Therapeutic Functions in Large Language Model Responses to Emotional Disclosures: Qualitative Content Analysis

Haruka Notsu, Sean Ryan, Phuong Anh Nguyen, Jill Noorily, John Torous, Matthew Flathers

JMIR Form Res 2026 (Oct 30); 10:e104513

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Generative Large Language Models for Psychiatric Concept Detection in Spanish-Language Electronic Health Records: Development and Evaluation Study

Clara Frydman-Gani, Alejandro Arias, Maria Perez-Vallejo, John Daniel Londoño Martínez, Johanna Valencia-Echeverry, Mauricio Castano Ramírez, Alex A T Bui, Nelson B Freimer, Carlos Lopez-Jaramillo, Loes M Olde Loohuis

J Med Internet Res 2026 (Oct 26); 28:e93328

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Meta Mesh Ontology for Cross-Domain Mental Health Knowledge Integration: Development and Evaluation Study

Rogério Blitz, Maike Richter, André Kerber, Ramona Leenings, Sylvia Thun, Nils Opel

JMIR Ment Health 2026 (Oct 23); 13:e96311

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Optimizing Small Local Language Models for Culturally Competent Mental Health Counseling: Comparative Evaluation With GPT-4o by Psychiatrists

Jaewook Han, Beomgi So, Whanbo Jung, Minwoo Kim, Hoon Kim, Daun Shin

JMIR AI 2026 (Oct 22); 5:e92470

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A Machine Learning–Guided Lyric Analysis Peer Support Intervention (LAPSI) for Psychological Distress in South African Women: Protocol for an Exploratory Sequential Mixed Methods Study

Lucas Banda, Mathildah Mokgatle, Olanrewaju Oladimeji

JMIR Res Protoc 2026 (Oct 21); 15:e90426

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Content, Engagement, and Information Quality of Borderline Personality Disorder Videos on TikTok: Mixed Methods Analysis

Gabrielle Evoy, Simon Poirier, Majorie Vadnais, Alexandre Hudon

JMIR Form Res 2026 (Oct 16); 10:e106246

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Rapid Innovation of Precision Psychiatry Interventions Using Dynamical Systems Modeling and Ecological Quasi-Experiments: Protocol for a Proof-of-Concept Study on Eating Disorders

Emily K Presseller, Falzah Farooq, Estefano Reyes-Madriz, Marianne Rouleau-Tang, Nicholas C Jacobson, J Graham Thomas, Lisa A Marsch

JMIR Res Protoc 2026 (Oct 15); 15:e104849

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Toward a Living Meta-Framework for Evaluating Generative AI in Mental Health

Ashleigh Sarah Golden, Elias Aboujaoude

JMIR AI 2026 (Oct 15); 5:e89211

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Exploring the Neural Mechanisms of Acupuncture Stimulation in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Protocol for a Randomized, Sham-Controlled, Multimodal Neuroimaging Trial

Jaehee Sim, Koung-soon Choi, Dong Hyuk Lee

JMIR Res Protoc 2026 (Oct 15); 15:e97910

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Suicide-Related Responses From AI Chatbots Through Application Programming Interfaces and Consumer-Facing Apps: Observational Cross-Sectional Comparative Study

Jonathan Cantor, Adrian Salas, Li Ang Zhang, Ellice Huang, Fang Zhang, Alyssa Burnett, Andrew Lohn, Pat Pataranutaporn, Benjamin Rader, Hao Yu, Ryan K McBain

J Med Internet Res 2026 (Oct 09); 28:e97968

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Incorporating Objective Behavioral and Biological Measures in a Large-Scale Decentralized Mobile Health Trial for Depression: Randomized Controlled Trial

Wendy S-Y Lau, Caroline M Swords, Margaret W Thairu, Nelson Hidalgo, Raquel Tatar, Hadley Rahrig, Christine D Wilson-Mendenhall, Daniel W Grupe, Robin I Goldman, Nathaniel J Vack, Craig Ferguson, Gabriela Valdivia, Kris Sankaran, Corrina Frye, Cortland J Dahl, Robert Lewis, Estelle T Higgins, Mason Garza, Zishan Jiwani, Matthew J Hirshberg, Amit Bernstein, Ellen Converse, Sona Dimidjian, Earlise C Ward, Gregory E Miller, Thomas W McDade, Rosalind W Picard, Jo Handelsman, Melissa A Rosenkranz, Heather C Abercrombie, Richard J Davidson, Simon B Goldberg

JMIR Ment Health 2026 (Oct 09); 13:e92589

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Large Language Model–Based Identification of Subjective Cognitive Decline in Electronic Health Records Among Older Adults With Normal Cognitive Testing: Retrospective Cohort Study

Liqin Wang, Rebecca E Amariglio, Sheril Varghese, Jiazi Tian, Diane Seger, Li Zhou, Gad A Marshall

JMIR Aging 2026 (Oct 07); 9:e93011

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