Researchers develop way of using machine learning to aid mental health diagnoses ANI | Updated: Feb 24, 2021 09:26 IST Washington [US], February 24 (ANI): A team of researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a way of using machine learning to more accurately identify patients with a mix of psychotic and depressive symptoms. The findings of the research were published in the journal 'Schizophrenia Bulletin'. Patients with depression or psychosis rarely experience symptoms of purely one or the other illness. Historically, this has meant that mental health clinicians give a diagnosis of a 'primary' illness, but with secondary symptoms. Making an accurate diagnosis is a big challenge for clinicians and diagnoses often do not accurately reflect the complexity of individual experience or indeed neurobiology.