News An Objective Diagnostic Capability For Ptsd

[anthony]

Draper is addressing these diagnostic and mental health treatment challenges by developing a new capability that combines virtual reality data with psychophysiological sensors to precisely distinguish between PTSD and other conditions. Sensors monitor biomarkers, including the patients’ heart rate, sweat, and pupil diameter, while test subjects experience different types of audio and visual stimuli. Software then analyzes the data from the sensors to develop an objective diagnostic decision. This approach provides a new research-based diagnostic capability that, with additional studies to validate effectiveness, could be used by practicing clinicians to enable more-effective and more-efficient patient care.

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[Anarchy]

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Clinicians are not employed or paid to undertake the necessary interviews

Repeatability of current diagnoses between clinicians is not stated, but going from the repeatability of diagnoses for the much more blatantly obvious psychoses (at best c60%) is likely to be little better than tossing a coin - if it is even that good.

I'm not sure how the virtual reality can be made relevant to all traumas.

Is the future of diagnosis going to be as dysfunctional as the automated calling system that my former telephone provider used?

 

[Ed Norton]

I still like the way Dr. Ting did my diagnosis by being a doctor.