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The Rise of the Mental Health Chatbot

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

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The most evident use of artificial intelligence within the mental health field are within chatbots. The adoption of mental health chatbots is a nascent field with the potential to fill mental health treatment gaps and alter perceptions of support to help reduce depression and anxiety in patients. This chapter will define mental health chatbots and explore their measurable benefits through applications in case studies and an analysis of technological opportunities within the health care industry.

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  1. X2 AI, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Michiel Rauws

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  1. Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

    Niklas Lidströmer

  2. Imperial College London, London, UK

    Hutan Ashrafian

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Rauws, M. (2022). The Rise of the Mental Health Chatbot. In: Lidströmer, N., Ashrafian, H. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64573-1_218

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