Reading Our Minds The Rise of Big Data Psychiatry

Reading Our Mindstakes us to a psychiatric hospital, where Barron evaluates a young woman with psychosis, and shows how his exam is limited by his own ability to ask questions and observe, and by his patient's ability to sense, interpret, and report her experience. Barron shows why psychiatry must move beyond conversation-and how sensors, measurements, and algorithms might progress psychiatric practice. At once pioneering and engaging,Reading Our Mindsintroduces readers to the Big Data technologies that might revolutionize the way we evaluate, diagnose, and treat mental illness and bring psychiatry firmly into the fold of 21st-century medical science.