Can AI Help Prevent PTSD?

What if a simple conversation in the emergency room could reveal who’s most at risk for PTSD before symptoms even begin? Katharina Schultebraucks, PhD, shares her innovative work on using machine learning to forecast mental health outcomes and explains how AI could revolutionize how we detect, prevent, and treat psychiatric disorders. Dr. Schultebraucks is Co-Director of the Computational Psychiatry Program and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

🔍 Topics Covered
00:00 Introduction
00:23 Current Work and Research Focus
01:29 Objective Measures in Psychiatry
02:50 Predicting PTSD Risk
04:28 Early Preventive Interventions
05:47 Machine Learning in Mental Health
09:49 Challenges and Surprises in Research
22:46 Burnout in Emergency Department Providers
27:17 Precision Psychiatry and Future Directions
29:35 Conclusion

📚 Related Resources
-Katharina Schultebraucks, PhD
-Computational Psychiatry Program in NYU Langone’s Department of Psychiatry
-“Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations” by Ziad Obermeyer, et al
-PTSD Treatment at NYU Langone Health 

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