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1 in 10 Five Year Old’s Show Signs of Mental Illness

Being exposed to abuse or neglect before age five is the strongest predictor of whether a child will be at risk for future mental illness, a study from UNSW Sydney finds. Primary school teachers could detect children at high risk of developing mental disorders soon after they start school, new research at UNSW Sydney suggests. The study [...]

By |2021-03-02T16:05:14+11:00November 30th, 2017|Categories: Mental Illness, Science & Research|Tags: , , |0 Comments

Twitter Posts May Reveal Onset of Depression

Here’s a phrase that psychiatrists will either love or hate: “State-space temporal analysis suggests that onset of depression may be detectable from Twitter data several months prior to diagnosis.” Indeed, a team of researchers from the University of Vermont, Stanford, and Harvard found that depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can often be detected by [...]

By |2021-03-02T16:07:36+11:00November 13th, 2017|Categories: Depression, Society & Culture, Technology|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments
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