Smartphone App May Revolutionize Mental Health Treatment
From: Medical Design Technology - 07/02/2014

New technology developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University is poised to
transform the way in which patients with mental illnesses are monitored and
treated by clinicians. Dr. Uri Nevo, research team engineer Keren Sela, and
scientists from TAU's Faculty of Engineering and Sagol School of Neuroscience
have developed a new smartphone-based system that detects changes in
patients' behavioral patterns, and then transmits them to professionals in
real time. It has the potential to greatly improve the response time and
efficacy of clinical psychiatrists. By facilitating patient observation
through smartphones, the technology also affords patients much-needed
independence from hospitals, clinicians - and even family members.

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Link:
Uri Nevo
http://www2.tau.ac.il/nano/researcher.asp?id=adggjigkd