Using machine learning to identify patients with a mix of psychotic and depressive symptoms – News-Medical.Net

A way of using machine learning to more accurately identify patients with a mix of psychotic and depressive symptoms has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham.
Patients with depression or psychosis rarely experience symptoms of purely one or the other illness. Historically, this has meant that mental health clinicians give a diagnosis of a ‘primary’ illness, but with secondary symptoms. Making an accurate diagnosis is a big challenge for clinicians and diagnoses often do…

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