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Suárez-Llevat C, Jiménez-Gómez B, Ruiz-Núñez C, Fernández-Quijano I, Rodriguez-González EM, de la Torre-Domingo C, Herrera-Peco I. Social networks use in the context of Schizophrenia: a review of the literature. Front Psychiatry 2024; 15:1255073. [PMID: 38881547 PMCID: PMC11177301 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1255073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 04/29/2024] [Indexed: 06/18/2024] Open
Abstract
Schizophrenia is a persistent mental health condition that, while presenting challenges, underscores the dynamic nature of cognitive functions and encourages a unique perspective on how individuals engage with their surroundings. Social networks, as a means of communication of great importance at the present time, are for this type of people a way of interacting with their environment with a high level of security. The aim is to find out how schizophrenia is dealt with in different social networks and to differentiate between different types of articles dealing with the use of Facebook, X (former Twitter), YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Weibo. A total of 45 articles to i) Social networks used, ii) Country of analyzed users, iii) age of the users analyzed, iv) focus of the analyzed manuscript (mental health literacy, stigmatization, detection of patterns associated with schizophrenia, and Harmful substance use). It was observed that 45.45% of the studies analyzed were conducted in the USA population, followed by UK and China (13.64%). The most analyzed social networks were those based on audiovisual communication (60%). Furthermore, the two main foci addressed in these articles were: stigmatization of schizophrenia with 16 articles (35.55%), following by the prediction of schizophrenia-detecting patterns with 15 articles (33.33%) and the use of social networks to stigmatize people with schizophrenia (38%) and only 14 articles (31.11%) were focused on mental health literacy. Likewise, it was found that there is great potential in the use of the analysis of the content generated, as possible predictors of the presence of this disease, which would allow rapid detection and intervention for psychosis and schizophrenia.
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- Carolina Suárez-Llevat
- Psychology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio, Madrid, Spain
- School for Doctoral Studies and Research in Biomedicine, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Faculty of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Nursing, Human Nutrition and Dietetics, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Program in Biomedicine, Translational Research and New Health Technologies, School of Medicine, University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain
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- Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Alfonso X el Sabio, Madrid, Spain
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Bauer B, Norel R, Leow A, Rached ZA, Wen B, Cecchi G. Using Large Language Models to Understand Suicidality in a Social Media-Based Taxonomy of Mental Health Disorders: Linguistic Analysis of Reddit Posts. JMIR Ment Health 2024; 11:e57234. [PMID: 38771256 PMCID: PMC11112053 DOI: 10.2196/57234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2024] [Revised: 03/28/2024] [Accepted: 03/29/2024] [Indexed: 05/22/2024] Open
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Background Rates of suicide have increased by over 35% since 1999. Despite concerted efforts, our ability to predict, explain, or treat suicide risk has not significantly improved over the past 50 years. Objective The aim of this study was to use large language models to understand natural language use during public web-based discussions (on Reddit) around topics related to suicidality. Methods We used large language model-based sentence embedding to extract the latent linguistic dimensions of user postings derived from several mental health-related subreddits, with a focus on suicidality. We then applied dimensionality reduction to these sentence embeddings, allowing them to be summarized and visualized in a lower-dimensional Euclidean space for further downstream analyses. We analyzed 2.9 million posts extracted from 30 subreddits, including r/SuicideWatch, between October 1 and December 31, 2022, and the same period in 2010. Results Our results showed that, in line with existing theories of suicide, posters in the suicidality community (r/SuicideWatch) predominantly wrote about feelings of disconnection, burdensomeness, hopeless, desperation, resignation, and trauma. Further, we identified distinct latent linguistic dimensions (well-being, seeking support, and severity of distress) among all mental health subreddits, and many of the resulting subreddit clusters were in line with a statistically driven diagnostic classification system-namely, the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)-by mapping onto the proposed superspectra. Conclusions Overall, our findings provide data-driven support for several language-based theories of suicide, as well as dimensional classification systems for mental health disorders. Ultimately, this novel combination of natural language processing techniques can assist researchers in gaining deeper insights about emotions and experiences shared on the web and may aid in the validation and refutation of different mental health theories.
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- Brian Bauer
- Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
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- Digital Health, IBM Research, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Digital Health, IBM Research, New York, NY, United States
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Khoo LS, Lim MK, Chong CY, McNaney R. Machine Learning for Multimodal Mental Health Detection: A Systematic Review of Passive Sensing Approaches. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 24:348. [PMID: 38257440 PMCID: PMC10820860 DOI: 10.3390/s24020348] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2023] [Revised: 12/14/2023] [Accepted: 12/18/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
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As mental health (MH) disorders become increasingly prevalent, their multifaceted symptoms and comorbidities with other conditions introduce complexity to diagnosis, posing a risk of underdiagnosis. While machine learning (ML) has been explored to mitigate these challenges, we hypothesized that multiple data modalities support more comprehensive detection and that non-intrusive collection approaches better capture natural behaviors. To understand the current trends, we systematically reviewed 184 studies to assess feature extraction, feature fusion, and ML methodologies applied to detect MH disorders from passively sensed multimodal data, including audio and video recordings, social media, smartphones, and wearable devices. Our findings revealed varying correlations of modality-specific features in individualized contexts, potentially influenced by demographics and personalities. We also observed the growing adoption of neural network architectures for model-level fusion and as ML algorithms, which have demonstrated promising efficacy in handling high-dimensional features while modeling within and cross-modality relationships. This work provides future researchers with a clear taxonomy of methodological approaches to multimodal detection of MH disorders to inspire future methodological advancements. The comprehensive analysis also guides and supports future researchers in making informed decisions to select an optimal data source that aligns with specific use cases based on the MH disorder of interest.
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- Lin Sze Khoo
- Department of Human-Centered Computing, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia;
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- School of Information Technology, Monash University Malaysia, Subang Jaya 46150, Malaysia; (M.K.L.); (C.Y.C.)
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- School of Information Technology, Monash University Malaysia, Subang Jaya 46150, Malaysia; (M.K.L.); (C.Y.C.)
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- Department of Human-Centered Computing, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia;
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Loch AA, Gondim JM, Argolo FC, Lopes-Rocha AC, Andrade JC, van de Bilt MT, de Jesus LP, Haddad NM, Cecchi GA, Mota NB, Gattaz WF, Corcoran CM, Ara A. Detecting at-risk mental states for psychosis (ARMS) using machine learning ensembles and facial features. Schizophr Res 2023; 258:45-52. [PMID: 37473667 PMCID: PMC10448183 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2023.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2022] [Revised: 04/26/2023] [Accepted: 07/10/2023] [Indexed: 07/22/2023]
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AIMS Our study aimed to develop a machine learning ensemble to distinguish "at-risk mental states for psychosis" (ARMS) subjects from control individuals from the general population based on facial data extracted from video-recordings. METHODS 58 non-help-seeking medication-naïve ARMS and 70 healthy subjects were screened from a general population sample. At-risk status was assessed with the Structured Interview for Prodromal Syndromes (SIPS), and "Subject's Overview" section was filmed (5-10 min). Several features were extracted, e.g., eye and mouth aspect ratio, Euler angles, coordinates from 51 facial landmarks. This elicited 649 facial features, which were further selected using Gradient Boosting Machines (AdaBoost combined with Random Forests). Data was split in 70/30 for training, and Monte Carlo cross validation was used. RESULTS Final model reached 83 % of mean F1-score, and balanced accuracy of 85 %. Mean area under the curve for the receiver operator curve classifier was 93 %. Convergent validity testing showed that two features included in the model were significantly correlated with Avolition (SIPS N2 item) and expression of emotion (SIPS N3 item). CONCLUSION Our model capitalized on short video-recordings from individuals recruited from the general population, effectively distinguishing between ARMS and controls. Results are encouraging for large-screening purposes in low-resource settings.
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- Alexandre Andrade Loch
- Laboratório de Neurociencias (LIM 27), Instituto de Psiquiatria, Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil; Instituto Nacional de Biomarcadores em Neuropsiquiatria (INBION), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil.
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- Instituto de Computação, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neurociencias (LIM 27), Instituto de Psiquiatria, Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neurociencias (LIM 27), Instituto de Psiquiatria, Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neurociencias (LIM 27), Instituto de Psiquiatria, Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neurociencias (LIM 27), Instituto de Psiquiatria, Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil; Instituto Nacional de Biomarcadores em Neuropsiquiatria (INBION), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neurociencias (LIM 27), Instituto de Psiquiatria, Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neurociencias (LIM 27), Instituto de Psiquiatria, Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Instituto de Psiquiatria (IPUB), Departamento de Psiquiatria e Medicina Legal, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Research Department at Motrix Lab - Motrix, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Neurociencias (LIM 27), Instituto de Psiquiatria, Hospital das Clínicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil; Instituto Nacional de Biomarcadores em Neuropsiquiatria (INBION), Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil
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- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; James J. Peters VA Medical Center Bronx, NY, USA
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- Statistics Department, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
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What users’ musical preference on Twitter reveals about psychological disorders. Inf Process Manag 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2023.103269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Corona Hernández H, Corcoran C, Achim AM, de Boer JN, Boerma T, Brederoo SG, Cecchi GA, Ciampelli S, Elvevåg B, Fusaroli R, Giordano S, Hauglid M, van Hessen A, Hinzen W, Homan P, de Kloet SF, Koops S, Kuperberg GR, Maheshwari K, Mota NB, Parola A, Rocca R, Sommer IEC, Truong K, Voppel AE, van Vugt M, Wijnen F, Palaniyappan L. Natural Language Processing Markers for Psychosis and Other Psychiatric Disorders: Emerging Themes and Research Agenda From a Cross-Linguistic Workshop. Schizophr Bull 2023; 49:S86-S92. [PMID: 36946526 PMCID: PMC10031727 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbac215] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/23/2023]
Abstract
This workshop summary on natural language processing (NLP) markers for psychosis and other psychiatric disorders presents some of the clinical and research issues that NLP markers might address and some of the activities needed to move in that direction. We propose that the optimal development of NLP markers would occur in the context of research efforts to map out the underlying mechanisms of psychosis and other disorders. In this workshop, we identified some of the challenges to be addressed in developing and implementing NLP markers-based Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) in psychiatric practice, especially with respect to psychosis. Of note, a CDSS is meant to enhance decision-making by clinicians by providing additional relevant information primarily through software (although CDSSs are not without risks). In psychiatry, a field that relies on subjective clinical ratings that condense rich temporal behavioral information, the inclusion of computational quantitative NLP markers can plausibly lead to operationalized decision models in place of idiosyncratic ones, although ethical issues must always be paramount.
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- Hugo Corona Hernández
- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, USA
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- Département de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences, VITAM Centre de Recherche en Santé Durable, Cervo Brain Research Centre, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
- Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Institute for Language Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
- University Center of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Tromsø—the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Culture, Interacting Minds Center, Cognition and Computation Communication, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
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- Department of Innovative Technologies, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Lugano, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Law, University of Tromsø—the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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- Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Institute for Language Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Department of Human Media Interaction, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Zurich, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- The Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
- Ethics and Philosophy of Technology Section, Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
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- Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Research department at Motrix Lab—Motrix, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Culture, Interacting Minds Center, Cognition and Computation Communication, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Culture, Interacting Minds Center, Cognition and Computation Communication, School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
- University Center of Psychiatry, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Human Media Interaction, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Bernoulli Institute of Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, Institute for Language Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Robarts Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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Chan CC, Norel R, Agurto C, Lysaker PH, Myers EJ, Hazlett EA, Corcoran CM, Minor KS, Cecchi GA. Emergence of Language Related to Self-experience and Agency in Autobiographical Narratives of Individuals With Schizophrenia. Schizophr Bull 2023; 49:444-453. [PMID: 36184074 PMCID: PMC10016400 DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbac126] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND HYPOTHESIS Disturbances in self-experience are a central feature of schizophrenia and its study can enhance phenomenological understanding and inform mechanisms underlying clinical symptoms. Self-experience involves the sense of self-presence, of being the subject of one's own experiences and agent of one's own actions, and of being distinct from others. Self-experience is traditionally assessed by manual rating of interviews; however, natural language processing (NLP) offers automated approach that can augment manual ratings by rapid and reliable analysis of text. STUDY DESIGN We elicited autobiographical narratives from 167 patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder (SZ) and 90 healthy controls (HC), amounting to 490 000 words and 26 000 sentences. We used NLP techniques to examine transcripts for language related to self-experience, machine learning to validate group differences in language, and canonical correlation analysis to examine the relationship between language and symptoms. STUDY RESULTS Topics related to self-experience and agency emerged as significantly more expressed in SZ than HC (P < 10-13) and were decoupled from similarly emerging features such as emotional tone, semantic coherence, and concepts related to burden. Further validation on hold-out data showed that a classifier trained on these features achieved patient-control discrimination with AUC = 0.80 (P < 10-5). Canonical correlation analysis revealed significant relationships between self-experience and agency language features and clinical symptoms. CONCLUSIONS Notably, the self-experience and agency topics emerged without any explicit probing by the interviewer and can be algorithmically detected even though they involve higher-order metacognitive processes. These findings illustrate the utility of NLP methods to examine phenomenological aspects of schizophrenia.
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- Chi C Chan
- Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
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- IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
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- Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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Kister K, Laskowski J, Makarewicz A, Tarkowski J. Application of artificial intelligence tools in diagnosis and treatmentof mental disorders. CURRENT PROBLEMS OF PSYCHIATRY 2023. [DOI: 10.12923/2353-8627/2023-0001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Introduction: Artificial intelligence research is increasing its application in mental health services. Machine learning, deep learning, semantic analysis in the form of transcriptions of patients' statements enable early diagnosis of psychotic disorders, ADHD, anorexia nervosa. Of great importance are the so-called digital therapists. This paper aims to show the use of AI tools in diagnosing, treating, the benefits and limitations associated with mental disorders.
Material and methodS: This literature review was conducted by searching scientific articles from 2015 to 2022. The basis were PubMED, OpenKnowledge, Web of Science, using the following keywords: artificial intelligence, digital therapy, psychiatry, machine learning.
Results: A review indicates the widespread use of AI tools in screening for mental disorders. These tools advance the clinical diagnosis medical specialists make up for several years. They impact solving medical staff shortages, lack of access to medical facilities and leveling patient resistance to treatment. The benefits are ultra-fast analysis of large sets of information, effective screening of people in need of specialized psychiatric care, reduction of doctors' duties and maximization of their work efficiency. During the current COVID 19 pandemic, robots in the form of digital psychotherapists are playing a special role.
Conclusions: The need for further research, testing and clarification of regulations related to the use of AI tools is indicated. Ethical and social problems need to be resolved. The tools should not form the basis of autonomous therapy without the supervision of highly trained professionals. Human beings should be at the center of analysis just as their health and well-being.
Keywords: artificial intelligence, digital therapy, psychiatry, machine learning
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- Klaudia Kister
- I Departmentof Psychiatry, Psychoterapy and Early Intervention of Medical University in Lublin, Poland - Students Research Group
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- Department of Paediatrician Oncology, Transplantology and Haematology of Medical University in Lublin, Medical University in Lublin, Poland - Students Research Group
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- I Department of Psychiatry, Psychoterapy and Early Intervention of Medical University in Lublin, Poland
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Kapitány-Fövény M. A commentary on the interpretability of computational linguistic findings in schizophrenia research. Schizophr Res 2022; 250:60-61. [PMID: 36368278 DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2022.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2021] [Revised: 08/24/2022] [Accepted: 10/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Máté Kapitány-Fövény
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Semmelweis University, Vas utca 17., H-1088 Budapest, Hungary; National Institute of Mental Health, Neurology and Neurosurgery - Nyírő Gyula Hospital, Lehel utca 59., H-1135 Budapest, Hungary.
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Chen ZS, Kulkarni P(P, Galatzer-Levy IR, Bigio B, Nasca C, Zhang Y. Modern views of machine learning for precision psychiatry. PATTERNS (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2022; 3:100602. [PMID: 36419447 PMCID: PMC9676543 DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2022.100602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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In light of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)'s Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), the advent of functional neuroimaging, novel technologies and methods provide new opportunities to develop precise and personalized prognosis and diagnosis of mental disorders. Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are playing an increasingly critical role in the new era of precision psychiatry. Combining ML/AI with neuromodulation technologies can potentially provide explainable solutions in clinical practice and effective therapeutic treatment. Advanced wearable and mobile technologies also call for the new role of ML/AI for digital phenotyping in mobile mental health. In this review, we provide a comprehensive review of ML methodologies and applications by combining neuroimaging, neuromodulation, and advanced mobile technologies in psychiatry practice. We further review the role of ML in molecular phenotyping and cross-species biomarker identification in precision psychiatry. We also discuss explainable AI (XAI) and neuromodulation in a closed human-in-the-loop manner and highlight the ML potential in multi-media information extraction and multi-modal data fusion. Finally, we discuss conceptual and practical challenges in precision psychiatry and highlight ML opportunities in future research.
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- Zhe Sage Chen
- Department of Psychiatry, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
- Department of Neuroscience and Physiology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
- The Neuroscience Institute, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
- Meta Reality Lab, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
- The Neuroscience Institute, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA
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Loch AA, Lopes-Rocha AC, Ara A, Gondim JM, Cecchi GA, Corcoran CM, Mota NB, Argolo FC. Ethical Implications of the Use of Language Analysis Technologies for the Diagnosis and Prediction of Psychiatric Disorders. JMIR Ment Health 2022; 9:e41014. [PMID: 36318266 PMCID: PMC9667377 DOI: 10.2196/41014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2022] [Revised: 09/09/2022] [Accepted: 10/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
Abstract
Recent developments in artificial intelligence technologies have come to a point where machine learning algorithms can infer mental status based on someone's photos and texts posted on social media. More than that, these algorithms are able to predict, with a reasonable degree of accuracy, future mental illness. They potentially represent an important advance in mental health care for preventive and early diagnosis initiatives, and for aiding professionals in the follow-up and prognosis of their patients. However, important issues call for major caution in the use of such technologies, namely, privacy and the stigma related to mental disorders. In this paper, we discuss the bioethical implications of using such technologies to diagnose and predict future mental illness, given the current scenario of swiftly growing technologies that analyze human language and the online availability of personal information given by social media. We also suggest future directions to be taken to minimize the misuse of such important technologies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alexandre Andrade Loch
- Institute of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.,Instituto Nacional de Biomarcadores em Neuropsiquiatria, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazilia, Brazil
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- Departamento de Estatística, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
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- IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States
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- Instituto de Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.,Research Department at Motrix Lab, Motrix, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Institute of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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James P, Trudel-Fitzgerald C, Lee HH, Koga HK, Kubzansky LD, Grodstein F. Linking Individual-Level Facebook Posts With Psychological and Health Data in an Epidemiological Cohort: Feasibility Study. JMIR Form Res 2022; 6:e32423. [PMID: 35389368 PMCID: PMC9030896 DOI: 10.2196/32423] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2021] [Revised: 12/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Psychological factors (eg, depression) and related biological and behavioral responses are associated with numerous physical health outcomes. Most research in this area relies on self-reported assessments of psychological factors, which are difficult to scale because they may be expensive and time-consuming. Investigators are increasingly interested in using social media as a novel and convenient platform for obtaining information rapidly in large populations. OBJECTIVE We evaluated the feasibility of obtaining Facebook data from a large ongoing cohort study of midlife and older women, which may be used to assess psychological functioning efficiently with low cost. METHODS This study was conducted with participants in the Nurses' Health Study II (NHSII), which was initiated in 1989 with biennial follow-ups. Facebook does not share data readily; therefore, we developed procedures to enable women to download and transfer their Facebook data to cohort servers (for linkage with other study data they have provided). Since privacy is a critical concern when collecting individual-level data, we partnered with a third-party software developer, Digi.me, to enable participants to obtain their own Facebook data and to send it securely to our research team. In 2020, we invited a subset of the 18,519 NHSII participants (aged 56-73 years) via email to participate. Women were selected if they reported on the 2017-2018 questionnaire that they regularly posted on Facebook and were still active cohort participants. We included an exit survey for those who chose not to participate in order to gauge the reasons for nonparticipation. RESULTS We invited 309 women to participate. Few women signed the consent form (n=52), and only 3 used the Digi.me app to download and transfer their Facebook data. This low participation rate was observed despite modifying our protocol between waves of recruitment, including by (1) excluding active health care workers, who might be less available to participate due to the pandemic, (2) developing a Frequently Asked Questions factsheet to provide more information regarding the protocol, and (3) simplifying the instructions for using the Digi.me app. On our exit survey, the reasons most commonly reported for not participating were concerns regarding data privacy and hesitation sharing personal Facebook posts. The low participation rate suggests that obtaining individual-level Facebook data in a cohort of middle-aged and older women may be challenging. CONCLUSIONS In this cohort of midlife and older women who were actively participating for over three decades, we were largely unable to obtain permission to access individual-level data from participants' Facebook accounts. Despite working with a third-party developer to customize an app to implement safeguards for privacy, data privacy remained a key concern in these women. Future studies aiming to leverage individual-level social media data should explore alternate populations or means of sharing social media data.
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- Peter James
- Division of Chronic Disease Research Across the Lifecourse, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
- Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
- Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
- Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL, United States
- Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center, Rush University, Chicago, IL, United States
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Lejeune A, Robaglia BM, Walter M, Berrouiguet S, Lemey C. Use of social media data to diagnose and monitor psychotic disorders: systematic review and perspectives (Preprint). J Med Internet Res 2022; 24:e36986. [PMID: 36066938 PMCID: PMC9490531 DOI: 10.2196/36986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2022] [Revised: 05/30/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
Abstract
Background Schizophrenia is a disease associated with high burden, and improvement in care is necessary. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to diagnose several medical conditions as well as psychiatric disorders. However, this technology requires large amounts of data to be efficient. Social media data could be used to improve diagnostic capabilities. Objective The objective of our study is to analyze the current capabilities of AI to use social media data as a diagnostic tool for psychotic disorders. Methods A systematic review of the literature was conducted using several databases (PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, PsycInfo, and IEEE Xplore) using relevant keywords to search for articles published as of November 12, 2021. We used the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) criteria to identify, select, and critically assess the quality of the relevant studies while minimizing bias. We critically analyzed the methodology of the studies to detect any bias and presented the results. Results Among the 93 studies identified, 7 studies were included for analyses. The included studies presented encouraging results. Social media data could be used in several ways to care for patients with schizophrenia, including the monitoring of patients after the first episode of psychosis. We identified several limitations in the included studies, mainly lack of access to clinical diagnostic data, small sample size, and heterogeneity in study quality. We recommend using state-of-the-art natural language processing neural networks, called language models, to model social media activity. Combined with the synthetic minority oversampling technique, language models can tackle the imbalanced data set limitation, which is a necessary constraint to train unbiased classifiers. Furthermore, language models can be easily adapted to the classification task with a procedure called “fine-tuning.” Conclusions The use of social media data for the diagnosis of psychotic disorders is promising. However, most of the included studies had significant biases; we therefore could not draw conclusions about accuracy in clinical situations. Future studies need to use more accurate methodologies to obtain unbiased results.
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- Alban Lejeune
- Unité de Recherche Clinique Intersectorielle, Hôpital de Bohars, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brest, Bohars, France
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- Unité de Recherche Clinique Intersectorielle, Hôpital de Bohars, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brest, Bohars, France
- Faculté de Médecine et Sciences de la Santé, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
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- Unité de Recherche Clinique Intersectorielle, Hôpital de Bohars, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brest, Bohars, France
- Laboratoire de Traitement de l'Information Médicale, Unité Mixte de Recherche 1101, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Brest, France
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- Unité de Recherche Clinique Intersectorielle, Hôpital de Bohars, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brest, Bohars, France
- Faculté de Médecine et Sciences de la Santé, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
- Lab-STICC, Unité Mixte de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 6285, F-29238, École Nationale Supérieure Mines-Télécom Atlantique Bretagne Pays de la Loire, Brest, France
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Hänsel K, Lin IW, Sobolev M, Muscat W, Yum-Chan S, De Choudhury M, Kane JM, Birnbaum ML. Utilizing Instagram Data to Identify Usage Patterns Associated With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders. Front Psychiatry 2021; 12:691327. [PMID: 34483987 PMCID: PMC8415353 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.691327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Background and Objectives: Prior research has successfully identified linguistic and behavioral patterns associated with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD) from user generated social media activity. Few studies, however, have explored the potential for image analysis to inform psychiatric care for individuals with SSD. Given the popularity of image-based platforms, such as Instagram, investigating user generated image data could further strengthen associations between social media activity and behavioral health. Methods: We collected 11,947 Instagram posts across 68 participants (mean age = 23.6; 59% male) with schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD; n = 34) and healthy volunteers (HV; n = 34). We extracted image features including color composition, aspect ratio, and number of faces depicted. Additionally, we considered social connections and behavioral features. We explored differences in usage patterns between SSD and HV participants. Results: Individuals with SSD posted images with lower saturation (p = 0.033) and lower colorfulness (p = 0.005) compared to HVs, as well as images showing fewer faces on average (SSD = 1.5, HV = 2.4, p < 0.001). Further, individuals with SSD demonstrated a lower ratio of followers to following compared to HV participants (p = 0.025). Conclusion: Differences in uploaded images and user activity on Instagram were identified in individuals with SSD. These differences highlight potential digital biomarkers of SSD from Instagram data.
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- Katrin Hänsel
- The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Northwell Health, Glen Oaks, NY, United States
- Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, United States
- Cornell Tech, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States
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- Cornell Tech, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States
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- The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Northwell Health, Glen Oaks, NY, United States
- Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, United States
- Cornell Tech, Cornell University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Psychology, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, United States
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- The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Northwell Health, Glen Oaks, NY, United States
- Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, United States
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- School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
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- The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Northwell Health, Glen Oaks, NY, United States
- Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, United States
- Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hampstead, NY, United States
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- The Zucker Hillside Hospital, Northwell Health, Glen Oaks, NY, United States
- Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, United States
- Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hampstead, NY, United States
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