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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">REA Press</journal-id>
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      <journal-title>REA Press</journal-title><issn pub-type="ppub">3042-2221</issn><issn pub-type="epub">3042-2221</issn><publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.22105/metaverse.v2i1.44</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <subj-group><subject>Large language models, Natural language processing , Blockchain, Data access control</subject></subj-group>
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        <article-title>Database security in psychiatry: leveraging large language models and blockchain for secure data managemente</article-title><subtitle>Database security in psychiatry: leveraging large language models and blockchain for secure data managemente</subtitle></title-group>
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	<name name-style="western">
	<surname>Kumar Murugan</surname>
		<given-names>Joel Nithish </given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.</aff>
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	<name name-style="western">
	<surname>Vyshnavi Madarampalli</surname>
		<given-names>Padmavathi </given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.</aff>
	</contrib><contrib contrib-type="author">
	<name name-style="western">
	<surname>Yadav</surname>
		<given-names>Shashikant Ramesh </given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.</aff>
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      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2025</year>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>02</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2025</year>
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      <volume>2</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
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        <copyright-statement>© 2025 REA Press</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
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			In this digital era, secure management of psychiatric data has become a key challenge due to the highly sensitive nature of the information it encompasses- from personal histories to therapeutic notes and behaviors up to diagnostic findings. Its unauthorized access or inappropriate handling might lead to privacy breaches, discrimination, and further erosion of trust in these mental health systems. This paper discusses how two disruptive technologies, Large Language Models (LLM) and blockchain, come together to address these challenges. The LLM is particularly good at analyzing unstructured data and, as such, provides deep, insightful clinical analytics for personalized mental health interventions while maintaining patient confidentiality. Blockchain technology ensures data integrity, immutability, and decentralized storage for the robustness of security and controlled access to sensitive psychiatric records. The combination of technologies will yield a secure, efficient, and privacy-preserving system for managing psychiatric data, advanced clinical decision-making, and trust protection of patients. The proposed framework will include a blockchain-based decentralized storage layer, a data analysis layer powered by LLMs, and a secure interface for controlled access to data with ethical and regulatory compliance. This integration is a significant step forward in attending to the special needs that psychiatric data management presents within healthcare.
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