Ambulatory assessment for precision psychiatry: Foundations, current developments and future avenues
Exp Neurol. 2021 Jul 3:113807. doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2021.113807. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrecision psychiatry stands to benefit from the latest digital technologies for assessment and analyses to tailor treatment towards individuals. Insights into dynamic psychological processes as they unfold in humans' everyday life can critically add value in understanding symptomatology and environmental stressors to provide individualized treatment where and when needed. Towards this goal, ambulatory assessment encompasses methodological approaches to investigate behavioral, physiological, and biological processes in humans' everyday life. It combines repeated assessments of symptomatology over time, e.g., via Ecological Momentary Assessment (e.g., smartphone-diaries), with monitoring of physical behavior, environmental characteristics (such as geolocations, social interactions) and physiological function via sensors, e.g., mobile accelerometers, global-positioning-systems, and electrocardiography. In this review, we expand on promises of ambulatory assessment in the investigation of mental states (e.g., real-life, dynamical and contextual perspective), on chances for precision psychiatry such as the prediction of courses of psychiatric disorders, detection of tipping points and critical windows of relapse, and treatment effects as exemplified by ongoing projects, and on future avenues of how ambulatory interventions can benefit personalized care for psychiatric patients (e.g.,...
Source: Experimental Neurology - Category: Neurology Authors: Markus Reichert Gabriela Gan Malika Renz Urs Braun Sarah Br üßler Irina Timm Ren Ma Oksana Berhe Anastasia Benedyk Alexander Moldavski Janina I Schweiger Oliver Hennig Francesca Zidda Christine Heim Tobias Banaschewski Heike Tost Ulrich W Ebner-Priemer Source Type: research
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