SchizoDetect
Ltd is a medical technical company seated in Lund, Sweden. The company has developed and created a new method of support for diagnostic evaluation of schizophrenia.
The need for such support is required in many areas of clinical psychiatry.
Reported symptoms may during long periods of time be indistinct, and
clinical investigation is often introduced late in the development
of the disease. It is important to medicate early for a better prognosis.
The method - mastered in professional hands - will improve the validity
of the diagnosis, and this may be crucial in e.g. forensic psychiatry.
SchizoDetect is based on the fact that processes of sorting and integration
of sensory stimuli within the nervous system function in an aberrant
way in schizophrenia. Samples of such aberrations regarding psychoacoustic
mechanisms have been collected and tested during many years of research.
They now constitute the basis of the method.
Samples
of stimuli shown to distinguish between schizophrenic and non-schizophrenic
individuals are, during testing presented to subjects in a specified
clinical setting. Stimulation parameters and measuring technology
are the original parts of the invention (SchizoDetect). Markers of
the disease are collected by treating data from simultaneous BSRA
- measurements. Results and predictive value of each testing is then
communicated to the physician requesting the investigation.