In Sister to Sister, we are specifically tailoring the intervention to urban women, and we're looking primarily at alcohol use because it's the most frequently abused substance in this population. And alcohol's pharmacologic and psychoactive properties may affect HIV transmission rates. The tool is actually an interview to help researchers establish a standard for diagnosing pathological gambling. It also should help researchers gather more information about behavioral symptoms that lead people to uncontrollable gambling and its emotional and financial devastation. In the project, Ridenour will use a computerized artificial neural network to investigate outcomes among drug users in two types of interventions.
Neural networks are a form of artificial intelligence.
So using them might be able to improve treatment research in many areas. The School of Medicine is one of the leading medical research, teaching and patient care institutions in the nation. Through its affiliations with Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children's hospitals, the School of Medicine is linked to BJC Health System.