machine learning

Youths With Suicide- and Self Injury-Related Emergencies Are Often Missed by Standard Hospital Identification Methods
A study in a large hospital system in Southern California finds that common methods of tracking care in emergency settings are missing many children and adolescents with self-injurious thoughts and… Read More
A Machine-Learning Tool That Predicts PTSD Risk Before Soldiers Are Deployed
Researchers have successfully tested a new method of predicting, prior to deployment, which soldiers serving in a combat zone are at greatest risk of developing PTSD in the months following their… Read More
Functional Connectivity Brain Changes Involving Linkages Between Cognition and Motor Function Are Discerned in OCD Patients
The symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) can be debilitating. Those affected experience intrusive, distressing, and often irrational thoughts (“obsessions”) which are accompanied by… Read More
Machine Learning Is Harnessed To Predict Risk of Opioid Use Disorder
Opioid overdose has become a public health problem of the first magnitude, identified as the cause of death in over 80,000 cases in the U.S. in 2021—about three-fourths of total deaths attributed to… Read More