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New AI can predict antidepressant success in a week
This AI-driven algorithm is able to predict the efficiacy of anti-depressant drugs like sertraline in a week.
The algorithm developed by researchers at the Amsterdam University Medical Centre and the Radboudumc can identify and predict which patients will respond well to the SSRI sertraline. “The algorithm suggested that blood flow in the anterior cingulate cortex, the area of the brain involved in emotion regulation, would be predictive of the efficacy of the drug. And at the second measurement, a week after the start, the severity of their symptoms turned out to be additionally predictive,” Radboudumc psychiatrist Eric Ruhé added.
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