The algorithm diagnoses child depression by speech in three minutes.

Anxiety and depression affect not only adults, but even very young children. Scientists have developed a diagnostic tool based on artificial intelligence, which works better than doctors.

Mental health disorders in adulthood are often born in childhood, but at this time children are often not covered by proper diagnosis. And parents do not always take anxiety symptoms seriously. Now scientists have created an objective diagnostic tool based on AI, which, according to the child’s speech, determines the signs of violations.

Scientists conducted a study with 71 children aged from three to eight years. Work published on the website of the University of Vermont.

Participants had to tell a three-minute story in conditions of heightened stress: they were judged by a strict judge, who gave only neutral or negative feedback. In addition, the story was interrupted several times with a sound signal.

Participants had to tell a three-minute story in conditions of heightened stress: they were judged by a strict judge, who gave only neutral or negative feedback. In addition, the story was interrupted several times with a sound signal.

A recent large-scale study by British scientists has shown that anxiety episodes under the age of 30 have a negative effect on memory. Scientists fear that it will often provoke dementia in the elderly.

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