Predicting High-Risk Behaviors in Individuals with Profound Autism Using Sleep and Other Environmental Factors becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside documentation workflows, supervision meetings, treatment planning, and quality review. In Predicting High-Risk Behaviors in Individuals with Profound Autism Using, for this course, the practical stakes show up in faster workflow without clinical drift, privacy loss, or weak oversight, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Sleep problems are common in those with autism spectrum disorder and have a strong impact on daytime behavior and development. Using machine learning, we were able to predict high- risk behaviors from sleep patterns in youth with profound autism. Our extension of this research to include other biological and environmental factors further supports the value of using artificial intelligence approaches for behavior prediction. With further development, this technology could be used to alert caregivers that high-risk behaviors are likely, allowing for implementation of additional preventative measures.
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
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Dr. Yashar Kiarashi is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Emory School of Medicine, specializing in AI-driven sensing technologies to improve health outcomes. He develops wearable and nearable systems to detect biomarkers for neurological disorders, focusing on the link between sleep and behavior in children with autism and cognitive health in older adults. Before joining Emory, his PhD work at Georgia Tech advanced explainable AI for designing nanoscale sensors. Yashar has been awarded the Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Award for his project, “Enhancing Behavioral Understandings and Interventions in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder using Artificial Intelligence.”
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