Feds Get In The Game To Fund Digital Tools For Mental Health Monitoring, Treatment
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Among projects recently funded by the National Institute of Mental Health are studies to assess a gaming system to evaluate and treat depression, and smartphone tools to correlate behavioral data with a patient’s mental state with enough precision to drive treatment for bipolar disorder. The institute says it wants to improve the current “bricks-and-mortar” mental health care system.
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