Depressive Disorders

App May Help Predict Manic Episodes in Bipolar Disorder

Can App Predict Manic Episodes in People With Bipolar Disorder?
Can App Predict Manic Episodes in People With Bipolar Disorder?
The app is designed to record speed, energy, and inflection in speech and send the data to a patient's doctor's office.

There are smartphone apps for monitoring your diet, your drugs, even your heart. And now a Michigan psychiatrist is developing an app he hopes doctors will someday use to predict when a manic episode is imminent in patients with bipolar disorder. People with the disorder alternate between crushing depression and wild manic episodes that come.

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