RESEARCHERS USE FITNESS TRACKER DATA AND MACHINE LEARNING TO DETECT BIPOLAR DISORDER MOOD SWINGS

Study indicates that a fitness tracker can detect mood episodes in bipolar disorder to help drive treatment.Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, evaluated whether data collected from a fitness tracker could be used to accurately detect mood episodes in people with bipolar disorder. Their findings, published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, indicate that it is possible to detect time intervals when patients with bipolar disorder are experiencing depression or mania with high accuracy using data from fitness tracking devices. READ MORE

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