title: Smartphone-centred wearable sensors network for monitoring patients with bipolar disorder.
abstract: Bipolar Disorder is a severe form of mental illness. It is characterized by alternated episodes of mania and depression, and it is treated typically with a combination of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. Recognizing early warning signs of upcoming phases of mania or depression would be of great help for a personalized medical treatment. Unfortunately, this is a difficult task to be performed for both patient and doctors. In this paper we present the MONARCA wearable system, which is meant for recognizing early warning signs and predict maniac or depressive episodes. The system is a smartphone-centred and minimally invasive wearable sensors network that is being developing in the framework of the MONARCA European project.
authors.affiliation: Networking Laboratory, Department of Innovative Technolgies, Institute of Information Systems and Netwrking, University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, 6928 Manno, Switzerland. alessandro.puiatti@supsi.ch
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Puiatti
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mudda
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Giordano
authors.forename: Oscar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Mayora
mesh_terms: D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology*; D040421:Cell Phone; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011846:Radio Waves