Tag: Mental illness

ABC13 town hall to focus on Hispanics and mental health!

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Houston, Texas (KTRK) – If you or someone you know is going through a crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or call the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME at 741741. Reach out to Trans Lifeline 877-565-8860 (US) or 877-330-6366 (Canada) and The Trevor Project at 866-488-7386. While our Hispanic and Latino communities have similar vulnerabilities to mental health issues as the general population, experts say they face more barriers to access and quality of treatment. According to NAMI35.1% of Hispanic and Latin American adults with…

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Can AI-powered voice analysis help identify mental disorders?

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Written by Ingrid K. Williams Imagine a quick and easy test such as taking your body temperature or taking your blood pressure that can reliably identify an anxiety disorder or predict an impending depressive episode. Health care providers have many tools for measuring a patient’s physical condition, but there are no reliable biomarkers–objective indicators of medical conditions observed from outside the patient–to assess mental health. But some AI researchers now believe that your voice may be the key to understanding your mental state — and AI is well-suited to detecting…

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