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Listening for Multiple Mental Health Disorders

In JASA Express Letters, researchers develop machine learning tools that screen for comorbid anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder using acoustic voice signals. The team spoke to participants with and without comorbid AD/MDD and recorded them using a secure telehealth platform. The participants were given a semantic verbal fluency test, in which they were required to name as many animals as possible within a time limit. The team extracted acoustic and phonemic features from the recordings and applied machine learning technique to distinguish subjects with and without comorbid AD/MDD. The results confirmed that a one-minute semantic VFT can be reliably used to screen for AD/MDD.

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