Whoever said the eyes are windows to the soul probably didn’t think they’d be key to diagnosing serious mental illness, but research shows that what a person focuses on, how their pupils respond, and other eye movements can indicate the presence of depression, PTSD, schizophrenia, and even developmental disorders like autism.
Now SenseEye, a Texas-based mental health platform, is aiming to bring that research out of the lab and into therapists’ offices and patients’ homes. The company is testing a mobile app that measures how a person’s eyes respond to various visual tasks as a way to detect PTSD.
The effort is part of a new wave of technology-based solutions aimed at improving the accuracy and speed of mental health diagnostics. These digital tools are in various stages of preparation, and while some are still in validation testing, others are already being used in the health care system, schools, criminal justice system, and clinics.
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Clinicom is an adaptive digital assessment tool that doctors send to their patients and can screen for over 80 mental health conditions in five languages.
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The program uses augmented intelligence so it learns how clinicians respond to recommended diagnoses. “Clinicom can efficiently and accurately assess a patient’s full range of symptoms while allowing clinicians to maintain full diagnostic control, reducing false positives and false negatives,” Christopher Lucas, a psychiatrist at Upstate Medical University, wrote in an open letter.
“With Clinicom, we can test an entire school district or the entire state of New York in one day,” Handal said. [the test] “It makes people feel like they’re being listened to, and when they’re being listened to, it makes people want to trust it even more.”
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