Precision Mental Health: Personalizing Treatments
Frontiers in Medicine 2024

We’re witnessing the advent of precision mental health—the ability to connect patients with the appropriate treatment for their specific condition using advances in neuroscience and technology. Dr. Williams will share how her team is using AI-assisted rapid pattern analysis of large functional MRI datasets to link brain activity with mental health symptoms, uncovering the root causes and distinct subtypes of depression and anxiety disorders. The results of this work have been transformative, enhancing the speed and accuracy of diagnoses and significantly improving treatment outcomes, doubling the rate of early patient recovery.

Leanne Williams, PhD
Vincent V.C. Woo Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Stanford Center for Precision Mental Health and Wellness

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