Pushing the boundaries of behavioral analysis could aid psychiatric drug discovery.

Published in: PLoS biology (2022)

Drug discovery for psychiatric conditions is stagnating. Behavioral changes could be used as a primary phenotypic screen for new drug candidates, if enough useful data can be generated from behavioral models. Could machine learning be the answer to extracting the data we need?

Keyphrases

drug discovery
machine learning
big data
mental health
electronic health record
data analysis
emergency department