Machine learning over suicide risk assessment?

This is a proof of concept study, which data mined discharge letters from two Harvard affiliated hospitals, looking words for positive (happy) and negative (sad) value, and predicting risk of suicide by quartile. Their outcome was death by… Read More

Your brain on ECT.

ECT is controversial. It is effective, but like any treatment we have in psychiatry, not everyone responds and there are side effects, including headache, transient confusion, and in some people short and long term problems with memory. What… Read More