Detecting the language of suicide: There's an app for that

Dr. John Pestian, professor of pediatrics, psychiatry, and biomedical informatics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center within the University of Cincinnati, and his team have created an app that examines language of suicidal teens. They call it SAM (Spreading Activation Mobile). Any parent of a teen knows all too well the ups and downs of those tumultuous years. At best, we feel utterly infuriated. At worst, we feel completely helpless and shaken to our core -- especially if our kids harm, or threaten to kill, themselves.