José García-Valdecasas

José García-Valdecasas

José García-Valdecasas
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Psychiatrist, Vice-Secretary of the Board of the Spanish Association of Neuropsychiatry

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Reaction: study claims it is possible to predict schizophrenia from fingerprints with 70 % reliability

Researchers from FIDMAG Hermanas Hospitalarias and CIBERSAM have announced the development of an algorithm that detects the risk of schizophrenia from fingerprints with a reliability of 70 %. It has been tested on 700 patients with schizophrenia and 850 people without schizophrenia; validation studies are pending.

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