Advanced technology meets mental health: how smartphones, textile electronics, and signal processing can serve mental health monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment.
Mental disorders, characterized by impaired emotional and mood balance, are common in the West. Recent surveys have found that millions of people (age 18?65) have experienced some kind of mental disorder, such as psychotic disorder, major depression, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, social phobia, and somatoform disorder [1]. Specifically, in 2010, 164.8 million people in Europe were affected by such illnesses [1].
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D040421:Cell Phone; D004582:Electronics, Medical / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D008603:Mental Health; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D013784:Textiles