“Fine-tuning” innovations to predict manic episodes in bipolar disorder
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Fitness tracking devices, like FitBit and Apple watch, first hit the market around 2015. As a practicing psychiatrist and neuroscientist, Dr. Alex Leow was fascinated by this new technology and began to ask herself- if we can make data trackers for the human body, why not the human brain?
Leow, longtime collaborator of former pilot awardee and CCTS clinical research support unit director, Dr. Olu Ajilore, talks about how her passion for playing the piano led to a career in neuroscience and spawned the idea to use smartphone keyboards to predict manic episodes in bipolar disorder.
Featured Researcher
Alex Leow, MD, PhD
Professor
Departments of Psychiatry and Bioengineering
University of Illinois Chicago
Twitter: @alexfeuillet
BiAffect Project: https://www.biaffect.com