Masa Sakata
masasakata.bsky.social
Masa Sakata
@masasakata.bsky.social
Clinical Psychologist, Jr. Assoc. Prof. at Nagoya City University.
Evidence-based practice, behavioral sleep medicine.
Reposted by Masa Sakata
An apparently fully automated generative AI analysis of our paper on precision psychotherapy (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) popped up in my mailbox. I think I am allowed to cite it here: bgpt.pro?q=Paper%20Re... (if not, pls let me know, BGPT!). It's amazingly accurate.
Personalised & optimised therapy (POT) algorithm using five cognitive and behavioural skills for subthreshold depression - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Personalised & optimised therapy (POT) algorithm using five cognitive and behavioural skills for subthreshold depression
www.nature.com
August 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Reposted by Masa Sakata
Evidence-based personalized & optimized CBT skills for depression, based on a trial of 4469 adults. The Resilience Training App will augment the efficacy by 35% overall over the group average best, and by 64% for those whose best option wasn’t this group average best!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Personalised & optimised therapy (POT) algorithm using five cognitive and behavioural skills for subthreshold depression - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Personalised & optimised therapy (POT) algorithm using five cognitive and behavioural skills for subthreshold depression
www.nature.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Reposted by Masa Sakata
All five skills of behavioral activation, cognitive restructuring, problem solving, assertion training and behavior therapy for insomnia worked differentially for depression (primary outcome), anxiety, insomnia and well-being. The follow-up rate was 97% at week 6 and adherence to the app was 84%.
April 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Reposted by Masa Sakata
The master protocol design, involving four 2x2 factorial trials, and the digital platform contributed to the successful completion of this RESiLIENT trial. Scalable. Affordable. Global. @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social @pimcuijpers.bsky.social @alexiswhitton.bsky.social @masasakata.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Reposted by Masa Sakata
Published today in Nature Medicine. In one of the world’s largest RCTs of its kind (n=3,936), a smartphone app teaching 5 key cognitive-behavioral therapy skills improved subthreshold depression—and the effects lasted 6 months.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Cognitive behavioral therapy skills via a smartphone app for subthreshold depression among adults in the community: the RESiLIENT randomized controlled trial - Nature Medicine
A trial that used a master randomized design found that the skills commonly found in smartphone-based cognitive behavioral therapy, when tested alone or in combination with behavioral activation, were...
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April 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
February 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Reposted by Masa Sakata
Depression is preventable. Our individual participant data meta-analysis based on >7000 participants proved that psychological interventions reduce the incidence of depression within a year from 10% to 6%. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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November 20, 2024 at 1:05 AM