John Torous

Datos Biográficos

ID1562166
NOMBREJohn Torous
NOMBRESJohn
APELLIDOTorous
FIRMATOROUS J
AFILIACIONESBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
ORCID0000-0002-5362-7937
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS26
TOTAL DE CITAS5
TOTAL COMO AUTOR26
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2017
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Smartphone-derived phenotypes of social media use in young adults

    Open AccessElombe Calvert, Andrew Jin Soo Byun et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2026

  • Telemedicine Special Registrations for Controlled Substances

    Open AccessJacob T Kannarkat, John Torous et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2025

    This Viewpoint discusses the Drug Enforcement Agency’s aim to limit diversion of controlled substances with special registration requirements for telemedicine visits

  • The Technology Use Survey

    Open AccessBridget Dwyer, Jane Mikkelson et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2025Referencias: 26

  • Open notes and broader parallels in digital health

    Sarah Chang, John TorousARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2023

  • Rebalancing Controlled Substance Regulations in Telemedicine

    Open AccessJacob T Kannarkat, Joseph T Kannarkat et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2023

    This Viewpoint elucidates major components of the proposed rules about controlled substance prescribing in telehealth, highlights evolving considerations with the US Drug Enforcement Agency’s approach, and offers potential improvements before finalization of the rules

  • Expanding Mental Health Care Access—Remote Therapeutic Monitoring for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

    Open AccessObinna Ekekezie, George Luke Hartstein et al.ARTICLEJAMA Health Forum2023

    This Viewpoint explores the challenges and opportunities for remote therapeutic monitoring as an innovative mental health treatment model

  • Patient and Clinician Experiences with Sharing Data Visualizations Integrated into Mental Health Treatment

    Open AccessSarah Chang, Lucy Gray et al.ARTICLESocial Sciences2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 27

    Digital mental health tools can collect vast amounts of data, but little research has been conducted on the impact of visualizing and sharing these data with patients in a clinical setting. In this study, semi-structured interviews were conducted via a HIPAA compliant platform with 10 patients and 5 clinicians in a digital mental health clinic about their experience with the integration of personal data visualizations into care. These interviews,…

  • A qualitative exploration of perceived needs and barriers of individuals with schizophrenia, caregivers and clinicians in using mental health applications in Madhya Pradesh, India

    Open AccessAmeya P Bondre, Rashmi Shrivastava et al.ARTICLESSM - Mental Health2022

    Introduction: About 3.5 million people are living with schizophrenia in India, with most failing to receive minimally adequate care. Digital mental health applications could potentially decrease this treatment gap; however, these applications should be tailored to meet the needs and overcoming barriers of its end-users to ensure their adoption and sustained usage. Few studies in India have explored the perspectives of target stakeholders to under…

  • Exploring the Neuropsychiatric Sequalae of Perceived Covid-19 Exposure in College Students

    Open AccessSuraj K Patel, John TorousARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    The urgency to understand the long-term neuropsychiatric sequala of COVID-19, a part of the Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS), is expanding as millions of infected individuals experience new unexplained symptoms related to mood, anxiety, insomnia, headache, pain, and more. Much research on PACS involves cross sectional surveys which limits ability to understand the dynamic trajectory of this emerging phenomenon. In this secondary analysis, we a…

  • Schizophrenia Assessment, Referral and Awareness Training for Health Auxiliaries (Saratha)

    Open AccessJohn A Naslund, Vidhi Tyagi et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    If successful, this digital training program will offer a potentially scalable approach for building capacity of frontline community health workers towards reducing delays in early detection of schizophrenia in primary care settings in rural India. This study can inform efforts to improve treatment outcomes for persons living with schizophrenia in low-resource settings

  • Piloting Smartphone Digital Phenotyping to Understand Problematic Internet Use in an Adolescent and Young Adult Sample

    Open AccessMeredith Gansner, Melanie Nisenson et al.ARTICLEChild Psychiatry & Human…2022

  • Sharing clinical notes, and placebo and nocebo effects

    Open AccessCharlotte Blease, Tom Delbanco et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 81

    This paper connects findings from the field of placebo studies with research into patients' interactions with their clinician's visit notes, housed in their electronic health records. We propose specific hypotheses about how features of clinicians' written notes might trigger mechanisms of placebo and nocebo effects to elicit positive or adverse health effects among patients. Bridging placebo studies with (a) survey data assaying patient and clin…

  • The growing field of digital psychiatry

    Open AccessJohn Torous, Sandra Bucci et al.ARTICLEWorld Psychiatry2021

    As the COVID‐19 pandemic has largely increased the utilization of telehealth, mobile mental health technologies – such as smartphone apps, vir­tual reality, chatbots, and social media – have also gained attention. These digital health technologies offer the potential of accessible and scalable interventions that can augment traditional care. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive update on the overall field of digital psychiatry, covering thre…

  • Cross cultural and global uses of a digital mental health app

    Open AccessElena Rodriguez-Villa, Abhijit R Rozatkar et al.ARTICLECambridge Prisms Global Mental…2021

    People with schizophrenia, their family members, and clinicians are open to integrating technology into treatment to better understand their condition and help inform treatment. However, app engagement is dependent on technology that is complementary - not substitutive - of therapeutic care from a clinician

  • Individualized Intervention to Support Mental Health Recovery Through Implementation of Digital Tools into Clinical Care

    Open AccessE Carpenter-Song, Stephanie C Acquilano et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal2021Citada por: 3Referencias: 52

  • Social Media and Mental Health

    Open AccessJohn A Naslund, Ameya P Bondre et al.ARTICLEJournal of Technology in…2020

  • A meta‐review of “lifestyle psychiatry”

    Open AccessJoseph Firth, Marco Solmi et al.ARTICLEWorld Psychiatry2020

    There is increasing academic and clinical interest in how “lifestyle factors” traditionally associated with physical health may also relate to mental health and psychological well‐being. In response, international and national health bodies are producing guidelines to address health behaviors in the prevention and treatment of mental illness. However, the current evidence for the causal role of lifestyle factors in the onset and prognosis of ment…

  • Digital Mental Health and Covid-19

    Open AccessJohn Torous, Keris Jän Myrick et al.ARTICLEJMIR Mental Health2020

    As interest in and use of telehealth during the COVID-19 global pandemic increase, the potential of digital health to increase access and quality of mental health is becoming clear. Although the world today must “flatten the curve” of spread of the virus, we argue that now is the time to “accelerate and bend the curve” on digital health. Increased investments in digital health today will yield unprecedented access to high-quality mental health ca…

  • Does Patient Access to Clinical Notes Change Documentation

    Open AccessCharlotte Blease, John Torous et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2020

    Open, honest, and trustworthy communication is crucial to ensure the effective responses of citizens. Paralleling transparency in the arena of public health are new practice policies that are set to transform the transmission of information at the level of doctors and patients. While patients have legally been entitled to obtain copies of their records for many years, in March 2020 federal legislation in the United States (U.S.) mandated that hea…

  • Sharing Clinical Notes in Psychotherapy

    Open AccessCharlotte Blease, Charlotte R Blease et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2020

    OPINION article Front. Psychiatry, 28 October 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.527872

  • Chatbots and Conversational Agents in Mental Health

    Open AccessAditya Nrusimha Vaidyam, Hannah Wisniewski et al.ARTICLEThe Canadian Journal of Psychiatry2019

    OBJECTIVE: The aim of this review was to explore the current evidence for conversational agents or chatbots in the field of psychiatry and their role in screening, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illnesses. METHODS: A systematic literature search in June 2018 was conducted in PubMed, EmBase, PsycINFO, Cochrane, Web of Science, and IEEE Xplore. Studies were included that involved a chatbot in a mental health setting focusing on populations with…

  • The Lancet Psychiatry Commission

    Open AccessJoseph Firth, Noreen Siddiqi et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet Psychiatry2019

  • Using a Smartphone App to Identify Clinically Relevant Behavior Trends via Symptom Report, Cognition Scores, and Exercise Levels

    Open AccessHannah Wisniewski, Philip Henson et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2019

    The use of smartphone apps for research and clinical care in mental health has become increasingly popular, especially within youth mental health. In particular, digital phenotyping, the monitoring of data streams from a smartphone to identify proxies for functional outcomes like steps, sleep, and sociability, is of interest due to the ability to monitor these multiple relevant indications of clinically symptomatic behavior. However, scientific p…

  • Augmenting Mental Health in Primary Care

    Open AccessLiza Hoffman, Emily Benedetto et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2019

    Background: Integrating behavioral health (BH) services into primary care is an evidence-based intervention that can increase access to care, improve patient outcomes, and decrease costs. Digital technology, including smartphone apps, has the potential to augment and extend the reach of these integrated behavioral health services through self-management support impacting lifestyle behaviors. To date, the feasibility and acceptability of using men…

  • Video games for mental health

    Open AccessMax V Birk, Greg Wadley et al.ARTICLEinteractions2019

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