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ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2021

Affective Computing for Late-Life Mood and Cognitive Disorders.

Erin Smith, Eric A Storch, Ipsit Vahia, Stephen T C Wong, Helen Lavretsky, Jeffrey L Cummings, Harris A Eyre

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Review in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 7 institutions in 4 countries.

Erin SmithThe PRODEO Institute, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Eric A StorchDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, United States.
Ipsit VahiaDivision of Geriatric Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
Stephen T C WongSystems Medicine and Biomedical Engineering Houston Methodist, Houston, TX, United States.
Helen LavretskySemel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Jeffrey L CummingsChambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience, Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), Las Vegas, NV, United States.
Harris A EyreThe PRODEO Institute, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Baylor College of Medicine · USDeakin University · AUHouston Methodist · USMcLean Hospital · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas · US

Funding

Renewal of Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) (Phase 2) CNTN - ResubmissionP20GM109025 · NIGMS · CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION · PI JESSICA KIRKLAND CALDWELL · 2015 to 2026
$22.8M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM109025
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Affective computing (also referred to as artificial emotion intelligence or emotion AI) is the study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate emotion or other affective phenomena. With the rapid growth in the aging population around the world, affective computing has immense potential to benefit the treatment and care of late-life mood and cognitive disorders. For late-life depression, affective computing ranging from vocal biomarkers to facial expressions to social media behavioral analysis can be used to address inadequacies of current screening and diagnostic approaches, mitigate loneliness and isolation, provide more personalized treatment approaches, and detect risk of suicide. Similarly, for Alzheimer's disease, eye movement analysis, vocal biomarkers, and driving and behavior can provide objective biomarkers for early identification and monitoring, allow more comprehensive understanding of daily life and disease fluctuations, and facilitate an understanding of behavioral and psychological symptoms such as agitation. To optimize the utility of affective computing while mitigating potential risks and ensure responsible development, ethical development of affective computing applications for late-life mood and cognitive disorders is needed.

Indexed as

affective computingAlzheimer's diseasedementiadigital phenotypinglate-life depression

Identifiers

PMID35002802
PMCPMC8732874
OpenAlexW4200494232

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