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ArticleInternational journal of bipolar disorders2018

Behavioural biomarkers and mobile mental health: a new paradigm.

Diego Hidalgo-Mazzei, Allan H Young, Eduard Vieta, Francesc Colom

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Article in International journal of bipolar disorders, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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4 authors.

Diego Hidalgo-MazzeiBipolar Disorder Program, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neuroscience, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBERSAM, Villaroel 170, 08036, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Allan H YoungCentre for Affective Disorders, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF, UK.
Eduard VietaBipolar Disorder Program, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Institute of Neuroscience, Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, IDIBAPS, CIBERSAM, Villaroel 170, 08036, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. evieta@clinic.ub.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0548-0053
Francesc ColomMental Health Group, IMIM-Hospital del Mar, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over recent decades, the field of psychiatry has allocated a vast amount of resources and efforts to make available more accurate and objective methods to diagnose, assess and monitor treatment outcomes in psychiatric disorders. Despite the optimism and some significant progress in biological markers, it has become increasingly evident that they are failing to meet initial expectations due to their lack of specificity, inconsistent reliability and limited availability. On the other hand, there is an increasingly emerging evidence of mobile technologies' feasibility to measure mental illness activity. Moreover, taking into account its widespread use, availability and potential to capture behavioural markers, mobile-connected technologies could be strong candidates to fill and complement-at least at some degree-the gaps that biological markers couldn't. This represents an especially interesting opportunity to reform our current diagnostic system using a bottom-up research methodology based on digital and biological markers data instead of the classical traditional top-down approach. Therefore, the field might benefit of further exploring this promising -and increasingly evidence-based- pathway as well as other auspicious alternatives in order to attain a more holistic and integrative approach in research, which could ultimately impact real-world clinical practice.

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PMID29730832
PMCPMC6161977

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