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Identifying suicidal young adults

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Functional brain-imaging methods provide rich datasets that can be exploited by machine-learning techniques to help assess psychiatric disorders. A recent study uses this approach to identify patients with suicidal thoughts, and to distinguish those who have attempted suicide from those who have not.

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    Barry Horwitz

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Horwitz, B. Identifying suicidal young adults. Nat Hum Behav 1, 860–861 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0239-6

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