Diagnosing mental disorders may soon be as easy as pie as scientists may be able to determine the condition with non-invasive procedures that could make the process simpler.
Diagnosing mental disorders with advanced AI software
There are lots of evidence that point to body language and verbal tics that are often used by many psychologists and psychiatrists to determine one’s state of mind or level of mental health and behavior.
Very recently, a team of researchers may have a very good idea about this technique which they are now currently developing- together with the help of advanced technology – to diagnose cases of mental disorder among people.
This was what was on the minds of researchers from tech company NeuroLex Diagnostics, who developed an artificial intelligence model that has so far correctly predicted test participants composed of a group of young through speech analysis.
The researchers explains that they determined who among those test participants were predicted to develop psychosis, which is a primary factor in schizophrenia.
Plans for full development
NeurLex CEO Jim Schwoebel, is also an engineer and is hoping that this tool can be full developed for doctors in screening patients for schizophrenia with a process as simple as raking a voice recording using a smartphone or recording device that is set up incognito.
The software, taking the recorded information would then analyze the data for linguistic cues and help provide data for diagnosis using a set of measurements and guidelines.
With the software algorithm in place, the more people who are taking these diagnostic samplings, the more details and ‘benchmarks’ would be reflected to determine a person’s well-being and state of mind.
NeuroLex recently received an award from the American Psychiatric Association for helping develop a tool for psychiatric patients in hospitals to help track their progress during treatment and therapy by taking voice samples and analyzing it for progress.
Huge step for behavioural and psychiatric medicine
This development is going to be a revolutionary step towards effective and accurate diagnosis.
Currently there are three common tests that can be taken to diagnose mental health and disorder. There’s a physical exam where doctors will conduct an in-depth study of your medical history and rule out all possible physical factors that cause the symptoms, laboratory tests where blood and tissue samples could be taken to analyze thyroid function or through drug or alcohol screening and a psychological evaluation.
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