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Digital twins and the future of precision mental health
Science faces challenges in developing much-needed precision mental health treatments to accurately identify and diagnose mental health problems and the optimal treatment for each individual. Digital twins (DTs) promise to revolutionize the field of mental health, as they are doing in other fields o...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10040602/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36993921 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1082598 |
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author | Spitzer, Michael Dattner, Itai Zilcha-Mano, Sigal |
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description | Science faces challenges in developing much-needed precision mental health treatments to accurately identify and diagnose mental health problems and the optimal treatment for each individual. Digital twins (DTs) promise to revolutionize the field of mental health, as they are doing in other fields of science, including oncology and cardiology, where they have been successfully deployed. The use of DTs in mental health is yet to be explored. In this Perspective, we lay the conceptual foundations for mental health DTs (MHDT). An MHDT is a virtual representation of an individual’s mental states and processes. It is continually updated from data collected over the lifespan of the individual, and guides mental health professionals in diagnosing and treating patients based on mechanistic models and statistical and machine learning tools. The merits of MHDT are demonstrated through the example of the working alliance between the therapist and the patient, which is one of the most consistent mechanisms predicting treatment outcome. |
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spelling | pubmed-100406022023-03-28 Digital twins and the future of precision mental health Spitzer, Michael Dattner, Itai Zilcha-Mano, Sigal Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Science faces challenges in developing much-needed precision mental health treatments to accurately identify and diagnose mental health problems and the optimal treatment for each individual. Digital twins (DTs) promise to revolutionize the field of mental health, as they are doing in other fields of science, including oncology and cardiology, where they have been successfully deployed. The use of DTs in mental health is yet to be explored. In this Perspective, we lay the conceptual foundations for mental health DTs (MHDT). An MHDT is a virtual representation of an individual’s mental states and processes. It is continually updated from data collected over the lifespan of the individual, and guides mental health professionals in diagnosing and treating patients based on mechanistic models and statistical and machine learning tools. The merits of MHDT are demonstrated through the example of the working alliance between the therapist and the patient, which is one of the most consistent mechanisms predicting treatment outcome. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10040602/ /pubmed/36993921 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1082598 Text en Copyright © 2023 Spitzer, Dattner and Zilcha-Mano. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Spitzer, Michael Dattner, Itai Zilcha-Mano, Sigal Digital twins and the future of precision mental health |
title | Digital twins and the future of precision mental health |
title_full | Digital twins and the future of precision mental health |
title_fullStr | Digital twins and the future of precision mental health |
title_full_unstemmed | Digital twins and the future of precision mental health |
title_short | Digital twins and the future of precision mental health |
title_sort | digital twins and the future of precision mental health |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10040602/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36993921 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1082598 |
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