The Emerging Science of Computational Psychiatry

Posted by Osiris30 on Sunday July 23, 2017 @09:27AM
from the technologyreview.com dept.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608322/the-emerging-science-of-computational-psychiatry/

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Re:The Emerging Science of Computational Psychiatry by valuearb on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:18AM (#14838656)

So a discipline that isn't able to conduct repeatable studies to support its key principles, can be computerized? OK.

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Re:The Emerging Science of Computational Psychiatry by justforFranz on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @04:52PM (#14851760)

Found the Scientologist!

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Re:The Emerging Science of Computational Psychiatry by kensai on Monday July 24, 2017 @07:11AM (#14837440)

This: "Computational psychiatry has suddenly made it possible to mine data from long-standing observations and link it to mathematical theories of cognition. It’s also become possible to develop computer-based experiments that carefully control environments so that specific behaviors can be studied in detail."

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Re:The Emerging Science of Computational Psychiatry by tinha on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:14PM (#14839701)

Yes, I think the main point here is that technology is allowing experiments to be conducted under controlled environments, which is hard to do in real life.

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