New approach can help detect and predict mental health symptoms in teens

New approach can help detect and predict mental health symptoms in teens

The majority of mental health disorders manifest during adolescence and relate to a multiplex interplay of neurobiological and environmental factors. Instead of considering these factors in isolation, a newly developed manifold learning technique can model brain-environmental interactions, which vastly improves detection of existing mental health symptoms and prediction of future ones compared to current methods. … Read more

New study may broaden the picture of the consequences of childhood adversity

New approach can help detect and predict mental health symptoms in teens

A research team has examined the link between adverse childhood experiences and the risk of mental health problems later in life, according to a study in JAMA Psychiatry. The researchers from Karolinska Institutet and University of Iceland have found that the risk of suffering from mental illness later in life among those experiencing significant adversity … Read more