Using Phone Apps to Detect Mental Illness in Adolescents
January 3, 2019
Filed in: Health & Wellbeing | Technology
Center board member Dr. Nick Allen talked to reporter Lindsey Tanner of the Associated Press about how smartphone apps may soon be able to detect adolescent depression to get real-time help to those who need it.
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