Researchers have identified psychosis subgroups that may inform ongoing efforts to redefine psychosis taxonomy using updated criteria, according to results of a longitudinal cohort study published in JAMA Psychiatry.

“This study shows that we can use computers to help us to rethink how people with psychosis symptoms are diagnosed,” Dominic B. Dwyer, PhD, of the department of psychiatry and psychotherapy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, told Healio Psychiatry. “This is clinically important because it may lead to the definition of more specific psychosis categories that increase the precision of psychiatric care and research.”