Commentary Open Access
Volume 7 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/biomedres.7.081
Reimagining psychiatric classification in the age of Big Data
Sam Goldstein1,*
- 1Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah, School of Medicine, USA
Corresponding Author
Sam Goldstein, sam@samgoldstein.com
Received Date: March 24, 2026
Accepted Date: April 06, 2026
Goldstein S. Reimagining psychiatric classification in the age of Big Data. J Biomed Res. 2026;7(1):32-35.
Copyright: © 2026 Goldstein S. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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