Medical Xpress September 3, 2024
The majority of mental health disorders manifest during adolescence and relate to a multiple interplay of neurobiological and environmental factors. Instead of considering these factors in isolation, a newly developed manifold learning technique can model brain–environmental interactions, which vastly improves detection of existing mental health symptoms and prediction of future ones compared to current methods.
The study in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging underscores the importance of considering the adolescent brain in conjunction with the environment in which it develops.
There is an increasing need to build more complex, yet nuanced, models of human biology and behavior, particularly as they relate to the development of mental health symptoms. Despite the importance of this problem, most work still considers the...
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