Social media's challenges for psychiatry

Mining Comparative Sentences from Social Medias

Comparative opinions represent a way of users express their preferences about two or more entities. In this paper we address the problem of comparative sentences mining focused on social medias. We propose a genetic algorithm able to mine comparative sentences from short sentences based on sequential patterns classification. A comparison among classifiers regarding comparative sentences analysi...

Engaging Social Medias: Case Mobile Crowdsourcing

In this paper we present an attempt of engaging social media population for bringing crowdsourcing model into a mobile context. The proposed social media crowdsourcing platform leverages the existing social networking applications to rapidly allocate microtasks to a wide network of crowdworkers, and visualizes the geotagged result data in order to create a sort of visual information pool for pu...

Social Psychiatry

Social Psychiatry

Although the re-actions of the individual psychiatric patient to groups have been noted and used for generations, curiously little attention has been paid to the possibilities of treatment in groups until the latter end of the war. At this time various experiments were carried out in Britain, in both military and civil hospitals. At the same time comparable work was going on in the United State...

Neurolaw: recognizing opportunities and challenges for psychiatry.

A 40-year-old schoolteacher begins secretly collecting child pornography and making advances toward his young stepdaughter.1 After evaluation by a psychiatrist and neurologist, an MRI is obtained, and it shows a huge orbitofrontal tumour. As soon as it has been resected, the legally relevant sexual behaviour stops. A few months later, however, the behaviour returns. As becomes clear on MRI, the...