Apps and AI could help personalize depression diagnosis and treatment
Two new grants awarding over $10 million to UIC will help Dr. Jun Ma and colleagues investigate the use of a smartphone app, an AI voice assistant and other technologies to diagnose and treat depression.
The researchers hope these tools will both broaden access to psychiatric care and help realize the promise of precision psychiatry, a paradigm of medicine where health care is more personalized, predictive and preventive.
“We want to use new digital assessment tools to better monitor and predict the disease trajectory and treatment response of people with depression,” said Ma, the Beth Fowler Vitoux and George Vitoux Distinguished Professor at UIC. “Then we can provide patients with the kind of precision treatment that can work for them now, instead of waiting for weeks, months or even a year to see how they respond, and also use new digital tools to deliver proven therapies at scale.”
Learn More: go.uic.edu/DepressionAI