With artificial intelligence, researchers create an electronic mechanism to monitor mental health

A recent study revealed that American researchers were able to devise an electronic mechanism that works with artificial intelligence to monitor the mental health of people, through an application that works with wearable devices such as smart watches.

The study, conducted by researchers at the American “Mount Sinai” School of Medicine, showed that algorithms were developed that are able to take advantage of the information collected by smart watches about the state of our bodies, such as heart rate, and employ them to give insight into mental health.

She pointed out that the application of the system, which the researchers recently developed in smart watches, will open a wide door to facilitating the monitoring and evaluation of psychological states.

According to the study, the researchers confirmed that mental health disorders are very common, accounting for 13% of all diseases globally, and a quarter of the Earth’s population suffers from mental illness at some point, which requires an assessment of mental health.

In turn, the first author of the study, Robert Shepherds, said that wearable devices, such as smart watches, can collect information about the health of the body, such as the number of steps taken, heart rate and stress, and calculate the small time differences between each pulse and another.

He pointed out that this data reflects the activity of the person’s autonomic nervous system, or part of the nervous system that controls the body outside our control, indicating that it is possible to use these nervous system measurements collected from smart watches to predict the psychological state of the individual and other mental health features. .