Digital Phenotype for Childhood Internalizing Disorders: Less Positive Play and Promise for a Brief Assessment Battery.

Childhood internalizing disorders, like anxiety and depression, are common, impairing, and difficult to detect. Universal childhood mental health screening has been recommended, but new technologies are needed to provide objective detection. Instrumented mood induction tasks, designed to press children for specific behavioral responses, have emerged as means for detecting childhood internalizing psychopathology.

Validation of Smartphone Based Heart Rate Tracking for Remote Treatment of Panic Attacks.

Panic attacks are an impairing mental health problem that affects 11% of adults every year [1]. Those who suffer from panic attacks often do not seek psychological treatment, citing the inability to receive care during their attacks as a contributing factor. A digital medicine solution which provides an accessible, real-time mobile health (mHealth) biofeedback intervention for panic attacks may address this problem.