Longitudinal monitoring in affective disorders: real-time mobile assessment for the early recognition of symptom changes (A01)

• Subject Area: Clinical Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 521379614

Continuous monitoring of mobile phone data combined with real-time analyses has the potential to resolve core issues of research in affective disorders: the early detection, prediction, and prevention of symptom changes and new episodes. The project aims (i) to evaluate established mobile phone data models for early warning signs to ensure the comparability of our results with previous work; (ii) examines new smart digital phenotypes, as numerous existing ones currently lack substantial validity; and (iii) harnesses machine learning technology to facilitate personalized predictions.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 393: Trajectories of Affective Disorders: Cognitive-emotional Mechanisms of Symptom Change
• Applicant Institution: Philipps-Universität Marburg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Michael Bauer; Professor Dr. Ulrich Ebner-Priemer; Professor Dr. Tim Hahn