How Smartphone Data Could Help Predict and Prevent Suicide in Adolescents
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Filed in: Health & Wellbeing | Technology
Could a cell phone save a life? Around the O talked to Dr. Nick Allen, Center board member and director of the Center for Digital Mental Health at the University of Oregon, about his efforts to develop a mobile app that could predict and thus prevent suicide by tracking the activities and moods of adolescents.
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