Psychiatry
Psychiatry
Psychiatry
Meru Health Offers Biofeedback Tracking with New Wearable
Last week, Meru Health, a digital mental health clinic, announced the launch of a wearable to capture biofeedback, including heart rate variability (HRV), during mental health exercises. The clip-on wearable is affixed to an individual’s ear...
Psychiatry
Sensor Reads Signs of Oncoming Aggression in Autism
Many people who suffer from autism experience periods when they become aggressive, something that tends to come out of the blue. Those taking care of such folks have a hard time managing such episodes, particularly because there's no warning...
Psychiatry
Tourette Syndrome Treated with Functional MRI
Researchers at Yale University have for the first time showed that it is possible to control the symptoms of Tourette Syndrome using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The researchers recruited twenty one 11 to 19 year-olds and...
Psychiatry
Smart Wrist Band Helps People with Affective Disorders to Monitor Emotions
Researchers at the University of Lancaster have developed a smart material that can help those with affective disorders, such as anxiety, bi-polar disorder and depression, to monitor their emotions. The smart material, worn as a wrist band, can...
Psychiatry
Women Paint Over Own Digital Avatars to Improve Mental Health
How we view our bodies is often influenced by popular culture and each one of our's social environment. Young women, in particular, tend to suffer from poor "body image," which can result in depression, eating disorders, and all kinds of other...
Psychiatry
Machine Learning Predicts Psychosis from Subtle Changes in Word Choices
Researchers from Emory University and Harvard University have developed a machine learning algorithm that can predict an individual’s likelihood for developing psychosis based on their speech patterns. Psychosis may be described as a “break with...
Psychiatry
Electric Brain Stimulation Shown to Improve Memory Function
Our memories often seem ephemeral, coming and going without any obvious reasons. Researchers at UCLA seem to have come up with a way to bring some memories back that would probably otherwise have gone missing forever. The team relied on...
Psychiatry
EmoGraphy by Philips Monitors and Predicts Stress: Interview with Navin Natoewal
Philips has recently launched EmoGraphy, a stress management technology to measure someone’s stress levels and then predict them an hour into the future. The company worked out the sensing and algorithm calculation methods, and are now...
Psychiatry
AI Platform for Cognitive Performance Training
Researchers from the National University of Singapore have utilized an AI platform, dubbed CURATE.AI, to help advance cognitive performance on challenging mental tasks. The system works by identifying an individual’s strengths and weaknesses,...
Psychiatry
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