A new digital screening tool for use in emergency rooms could better detect and prevent youth suicides, Michigan Medicine said Wednesday.
The tool named CASSY, short for Computerized Adaptive Screen for Suicidal Youth is one of the latest efforts to address youth suicide, which is an increasing concern during the pandemic. Too many young people are dying by suicide and many at high risk go completely unrecognized and untreated, the study s lead author, Cheryl King, said. About half of the youth who die by suicide have never received any mental health services.
King, a clinical child psychologist and director of the Youth and Young Adult Depression and Suicide Prevention Research Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Michigan Medicine, said there is an urgent need to improve youth suicide screening.
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Caption: Our ability to highlight surprises stems from a specific interplay of brain waves that suppress processing of predicted stimuli, such as the things we always see around the office, to pave the way for heightened processing of what s new, like a gift left on the desk one morning.
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If you open your office door one morning and there is a new package waiting on your desk, that’s what you will notice most in the otherwise unchanged room. A recent study by MIT and Boston University neuroscientists finds that the dynamic interplay of different brain wave frequencies, rather than dedicated circuitry, appears to govern the brain’s knack for highlighting what’s surprising and downplaying what’s predictable.