Introduction Depression is the leading cause of worldwide disability, until now only 3% of
patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) experiences full recovery or remission …

Digital health and wearable technologies represent a transformative wave in healthcare,
blending medical advancements with innovative technology to enhance patient care …

This chapter explores the ever-changing environment of wearable health technology and its
critical role in transforming modern healthcare. It goes into the historical history of these …

The sudden appearance and devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the
need for multiple adaptive changes in societies, business operations and healthcare …

As wearable devices, which allow individuals to track and self-manage their health, become
more ubiquitous, the opportunities are growing for researchers to use these sensors within …

Background Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a prevalent mental health condition
characterized by persistent low mood, cognitive and physical symptoms, anhedonia (loss of …

Background General physicians misclassify depression in more than half of the cases.
Researchers have explored the feasibility of leveraging passively collected data points, also …

The rising popularity of wearable devices allows for extensive and unobtrusive collection of
personal health data for extended periods of time. Recent studies have used machine …

Objective Anxiety disorders are highly prevalent around the world and are associated with
significant disability, comorbidity and costs to society. Digital tools have the potential to …

Despite the high performance of existing state-of-the-art deep learning models for
depression detection using electroencephalography (EEG), they incur a heavy …