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DarkHorse4eva
May 9th, 2014, 12:55 AM
Smartphone app predicts bipolar mood swings
An experimental smartphone app analyses changes in vocal patterns to predict the early signs of a bipolar mood swing.

http://www.cnet.com/news/smartphone-app-predicts-bipolar-swings-by-analysing-vocal-patterns/

Gamma Male
May 9th, 2014, 01:51 AM
Is it on the android app store? O:
This sounds awesome!

mai-rin
May 9th, 2014, 06:20 AM
I need this :L

Melodic
May 9th, 2014, 12:47 PM
Go University of Michigan for inventing this!

Must of saw one of my bipolar mood swings in the super market one day.. :P

Dalcourt
May 10th, 2014, 06:05 AM
This sounds really interesting.

CosmicNoodle
May 17th, 2014, 07:06 AM
My hat goes off to the people who designed this, absolutely amazing idea. Hope it works out well in practice, it could really help some people

sqishy
May 19th, 2014, 04:15 PM
Interesting

Syvelocin
May 19th, 2014, 04:37 PM
Ooh, I'm intrigued. If I was closer, I'd try to get into the study. Sounds pretty legit, though probably not 100% accuracy, but I definitely notice that the biggest sign of my hypomania is all verbal so I'd imagine that's the closest you could get to an app that could predict mania.