This chapter explores the symptoms of schizophrenia, including hearing voices, paranoid thinking, and social withdrawal. It delves into the challenges of receiving timely diagnosis and treatment, emphasizing the negative consequences of delays on patient outcomes.
Madeleine Finlay meets neuroscientist and psychiatrist Matthew Nour, whose research looks at how artificial intelligence could help doctors and scientists bring precision to diagnosis of psychiatric conditions. He describes his latest study looking at patients with schizophrenia, and explains how he thinks large language models such as ChatGPT could one day be used in the clinic. Help support our independent journalism at
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