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The Future Brain
Psychosis
AI Machine Learning Used to Predict Psychosis
European study led by the Max Planck Institute uses AI as a mental health tool.
Posted May 03, 2021
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THE BASICS
What Is Psychosis?
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Can artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning provide clinicians with predictions of patients who will develop psychosis? In a new European study released last month in JAMA Psychiatry led by Dr. Nikolaos Koutsouleris at the Max-Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, researchers used AI machine learning and human intelligence to predict mental illness.
“Our study showed for the first time, to our knowledge, that the augmentation of human prognostic abilities with algorithmic pattern recognition improves prognostic accuracy to margins that likely justify the clinical implementation of cybernetic decision-support tools,” wrote the researchers.
Psychosis is a treatable condition with many causes that affects how the brain processes information. It is characterized by a loss of connection with reality. Psychosis is a symptom of health issues such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, which are considered primary psychotic illnesses. Secondary psychosis is the term used to describe when a person experiences a disconnect from reality for triggers other than primary psychotic illnesses.
Psychosis may arise from sleep deprivation, medical conditions, trauma, or pregnancy and endocannabinoids are present in many patients with primary psychotic disorders, which are associated with altered connections between reality and the brain.
Psychosis may arise from medical conditions, toxins in the environment, trauma from living, or trauma from non-traumatic events. Psychosis may arise from medications, alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs.
Psychosis may arise from a wide range of physical and mental illnesses, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, Parkinson’s disease, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, thyroid problems, and diabetes.
Almost 70 percent of people with psychosis exhibit epileptic seizures, which are usually in the visual periphery. With increasing numbers of cases, normal again becomes difficult.
Although the brain is a funny tissue, the function of the brain is to keep the mind occupied so that the thoughts, images, and expectations of the moment are not disrupted. When that function is lost, the effect is the loss of the self.
Lost in the current moment, the colorful stripes of the plane or asteroid are fleeting. The movie Jupiter uses this trick all the time. Jupiter takes Saturn’s place so that Earth has a Southern light. This way, we have a dark side to our light, which helps us coordinate with the grid of the planets.
Eventually, our manic planet will be destroyed by the sun. But the destruction of the solar system will be cataclysmic enough for the universe as a whole.