Mood instability and mental health service use in autism and ADHD: A natural language processing analysis of 21,906 children and adolescents
This study used natural language processing to analyze electronic health records from over 21,000 children with autism and/or ADHD, examining how baseline mood instability relates to mental health service use patterns. Mood instability was associated with significantly increased annual mental health service use across all diagnostic groups, with the strongest effects in ADHD alone, and reduced time to discharge specifically in the ADHD group.