Late psychiatrist Dan Stein's parting vision: AI and big data for mental health
PTenigma · x · 2026-10-10
Colleagues memorialize Dan Stein, a psychiatry scholar who passed away at 63 last year, whose final article — published last week — lays out an optimistic vision for psychiatry. He argued that research has shifted from small isolated studies to international collaborations with hundreds of thousands of participants, and that global collaboration, rich biological data, and AI offer genuine hope that mental disorders will become easier to understand, predict, prevent, and treat.
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