The assessment and diagnosis of mental health disorders is ambiguous, inconsistent and negatively biased frustrating efforts to identify underlying etiologies and appropriate intervention. New tools…
3 Challenges in Mental Health Assessment
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What Are Mental Disorders?
The question of what mental disorders actually are is a highly controversial one with a long-running history. Here we provide an initial perspective on this…
ADHD: Symptom Similarity Across Diagnostic Tools
Assessment of ADHD differs substantially between tools meant for children and adults with implications for discovery of biomarkers. Across a series of recent posts we’ve…
A Disorder Agnostic Approach to Mental Health Symptoms
A comparison of 16 major cross-disorder mental health assessment tools shows that none provide a complete picture of a patient’s mental health symptom profile. The…
Graph Theory, EEG and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Graph theoretic measures applied to EEG have shed insight into differences in brain networks associated with neuropsychiatric disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Schizophrenia. Here are…
Quantitative Similarity of Depression Tools
There are many tools to assess depression. Here we show that these tools differ in terms of the symptoms they assess and emphasize, resulting in…
The Ambiguous Symptoms of Autism
The ‘diagnosis’ of Autism has a great deal of heterogeneity with a very different range of symptoms considered depending on the tools used. The landscape…
The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
Peculiar symptoms such as those in those in the Alice in Wonderland Syndrome are hypothesized to arise from phenomenology such as cortical spreading depression. EEG…
Assess Your Mental Well Being
The clinical literature around mental health is focused on ‘disorders’. However without an overall understanding of well being, it is difficult to understand when normal…
If Sanity and Insanity Exist, How Shall We Know Them?
So begins a fascinating and frightening study from 1973 that demonstrates how much circumstance dictates our perception of others, reminding us that recognizing what’s normal…
