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Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala
Researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology
Publications - 28
Citations - 656
Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala is an academic researcher from Georgia Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 23 publications receiving 386 citations. Previous affiliations of Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala include International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.
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A Collaborative Approach to Identifying Social Media Markers of Schizophrenia by Employing Machine Learning and Clinical Appraisals
Michael L. Birnbaum,Michael L. Birnbaum,Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala,Asra F. Rizvi,Munmun De Choudhury,John M. Kane,John M. Kane +6 more
TL;DR: These data reinforce the need for ongoing collaborations integrating expertise from multiple fields to strengthen the ability to accurately identify and effectively engage individuals with mental illness online and move from noisy self-reports of schizophrenia on social media to more accurate identification of diagnoses by exploring a human-machine partnered approach.
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Methodological Gaps in Predicting Mental Health States from Social Media: Triangulating Diagnostic Signals
Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala,Michael L. Birnbaum,Kristin A. Candan,Asra F. Rizvi,William A. Sterling,John M. Kane,Munmun De Choudhury +6 more
TL;DR: Focusing on three commonly used proxy diagnostic signals derived from social media, it is found that predictive models built on these data, although offer strong internal validity, suffer from poor external validity when tested on mental health patients.
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Linguistic Markers Indicating Therapeutic Outcomes of Social Media Disclosures of Schizophrenia
TL;DR: Signs of therapeutic outcomes following disclosures of schizophrenia diagnoses made on Twitter are found, including improved readability and coherence in language, future orientation, lower self preoccupation, and reduced discussion of symptoms and stigma perceptions.
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How Well Do People Report Time Spent on Facebook?: An Evaluation of Established Survey Questions with Recommendations
TL;DR: Comparing data from ten self-reported Facebook use survey measures deployed in 15 countries against data from Facebook's server logs to describe factors associated with error in commonly used survey items from the literature concludes with recommendations on the most accurate ways to collect time-spent data via surveys.
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Detecting relapse in youth with psychotic disorders utilizing patient-generated and patient-contributed digital data from Facebook.
Michael L. Birnbaum,Michael L. Birnbaum,Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala,Asra F. Rizvi,Asra F. Rizvi,Elizabeth Arenare,Elizabeth Arenare,A. R. Van Meter,A. R. Van Meter,M. De Choudhury,John M. Kane,John M. Kane +11 more
TL;DR: Social media activity captures objective linguistic and behavioral markers of psychotic relapse in young individuals with recent onset psychosis and machine-learning models were capable of making personalized predictions of imminent relapse hospitalizations at the patient-specific level.