A therapist in your pocket
February 8, 2012
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Are you depressed, checking e-mail and Facebook, or home alone ruminating for hours?
Cheer up. Scientists are inventing web-based, mobile and virtual technologies to treat depression and other mood disorders at a new National Institutes of Health-funded Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine center.
In the works: a virtual human therapist to prevent depression, a medicine bottle that reminds you to take antidepressant medication and tells your doctor if the dosage needs adjusting, and a web-based social network to help cancer survivors relieve sadness and stress.
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