DigiMind Lab

The DigiMind Lab, led by Dr. Matteo Malgaroli in the Department of Psychiatry at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, sits at the intersection of clinical psychology and artificial intelligence.

Mental health is assessed and treated through language. We use AI to examine and generate language at scale, allowing us to make mental health interventions more scalable and objective. We develop and test digital tools to support care, including automated systems for psychiatric assessment and risk stratification, and we study how patients and clinicians interact with conversational AI so that it can be deployed more safely.

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Recent News

October 2026

DIAL, our adversarial framework for realistic multi-turn user simulation (Zhu et al.), has been accepted at EMNLP 2026. We will present it in Budapest, October 24 to 29.

September 2026

We are presenting our research at the ISTSS 42nd Annual Meeting in San Antonio, September 23 to 26.

August 2026

Now out in Psychological Medicine: Mermin et al., “Anxiety and depression subtypes and their psychotherapy response: A network analysis of 33,675 patients”.

January 2026

New preprint: Brindle et al., “Language markers of emotion flexibility predict depression and anxiety treatment outcomes”.

September 2025

Dr. Malgaroli attended the Dagstuhl Seminar on Natural Language Processing for Mental Health at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany.

August 2025

VISTA-SSM, our state-space clustering method, is published in Psychological Methods.

April 2025

The Lancet Digital Health commentary: Large language models for the mental health community.

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Funding & Support

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention