What Does a Person Think When Told to See a Neurologist? How Mind Genomics Thinking + Artificial Intelligence Enable Synthetic Experiments
Understanding a patient's thoughts and feelings is crucial in medicine, particularly in neurology, where neurological conditions can impact their thinking, feelings, and actions. The paper shows how AI (large language models, LLM) allows the doctor to specify an illness and in turn request the AI to return with different things that the prospective patient might be thinking. The approach is demonstrated for visits to the neurologists by males versus females, age 20, 40, 60, and 80, and finally visits to see a neurologist suggested by the primary care physician versus suggested because the patient has issues with gait. The approach provides a new way to help doctors become more sensitive to the often unstated but real emotional needs of their patients.