Latest updates · 21 October 2026
In the full issue →A Stockholm University trial finds that AI-written feedback in internet CBT for social anxiety worked almost as well as feedback from a human therapist, with a psychologist checking every AI reply.
Research, industry & policy
- Social anxiety falls almost as much with an AI therapist as with a human, Stockholm University · 20 Oct 2026: 263 adults were randomised to six groups for nine weeks; what participants were told about who wrote the feedback made no measurable difference, and the researchers stress AI was not tested working alone.
Journals & preprints
- AI-Generated vs. Human Therapist Feedback in Internet-Based CBT for Social Anxiety Disorder: A Six-Arm Randomized Controlled Trial with Deception Design, Internet Interventions · DOI 10.1016/j.invent.2026.101012 · Oct 2026: Psychologist-reviewed AI feedback produced symptom reductions similar to therapist feedback, with no difference in negative effects or perceived working relationship.
- Context-Aware Topological Distillation Graph Network for Asymmetric EEG-Eye Movement Emotion Recognition, arXiv 2610.26084 · 19 Oct 2026: EEG-eye movement emotion recognition can support mental-health monitoring and adaptive interfaces, but most fusion models treat the two signals as parallel features, classify each window alone and degrade when eye data are lost.
Conferences, workshops & events
- UCSF CODEX AI and Diagnosis Webinar, 10 Nov 2026 · Online: Sachin Pendse: towards a safety-first approach to AI-mediated mental health support.
Why it matters
If AI drafts and a psychologist approves, one clinician may be able to support more patients; the next step is testing that model at scale. News summary only, not medical advice.
