Mindstrong Health identifies digital biomarkers of cognitive function using smartphone data

___ mHealth Research on Men­tal Health Taps Into One’s Tap­ping Habits (mHealth Intel­li­gence): “Health­care providers look­ing to use mHealth in behav­ioral health treat­ment have long strug­gled to make the tech­nol­o­gy unob­tru­sive. But recent research sug­gests that remote mon­i­tor­ing of peo­ple with men­tal health issues could be done by ana­lyz­ing their smart­phone habits. A recent report…

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Mental Health Innovation and Dr. Tom Insel: from the NIMH to Google/ Verily Life Sciences to Startup Mindstrong

— For­mer Alpha­bet exec is work­ing on an idea to detect men­tal health dis­or­ders by how you type on your phone (CNBC): “Can a smart­phone detect whether a user is sui­ci­dal or depressed? That’s the promise of an explod­ing num­ber of men­tal health entre­pre­neurs, who are explor­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties to mon­i­tor users’ smart­phone behav­ior to detect…

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Next: Technology to enable patient-centered, collaborative behavioral health and chronic care management

. Tech Is Dri­ving Col­lab­o­ra­tion In Behav­ioral Health (TechCrunch): “Col­lab­o­ra­tion amongst providers is crit­i­cal in all aspects of med­i­cine, but nowhere is this more true than in behav­ioral health (men­tal health and sub­stance use dis­or­ders), where the costs of poor col­lab­o­ra­tion are sky-high…There is a moun­tain of evi­dence to sug­gest that 

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Mobile cognitive therapies gain traction as first-line mental health intervention

Men­tal health apps let you access ther­a­py from your smart­phone (New Sci­en­tist): “Lie down any­where that suits: the world is now your therapist’s couch. A wide range of apps now deliv­er men­­tal-health care straight to your smart­phone. With PTSD Coach, users can dis­creet­ly screen them­selves and learn more about the dis­or­der. Mood­notes keeps track of

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Open question: Can coffee & Ritalin’s mental effects be delivered, safely, over a smartphone?

. Will 2015 be the year our smart­phones link up to our brains? (Pop­u­lar Sci­ence): “Thync bills itself first and fore­most as a neu­ro­science com­pa­ny. Its sole product—slated for release lat­er this year—is a smart­­phone-con­trolled wear­able device that will allow the user to active­ly alter his or her brain’s elec­tri­cal state through tran­scra­nial direct current…

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