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Study indicates that a fitness tracker can detect mood episodes in bipolar disorder to help drive treatment.

Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, evaluated whether data collected from a fitness tracker could be used to accurately detect mood episodes in people with bipolar disorder.

Whether it’s the fitness tracker on your wrist, the “smart” home appliances in your house or the latest kids’ fad going viral in online videos, they all produce a trove of personal data for big tech companies.

Turley describes them as “an advanced fitness tracker.”

"Altogether, the combination of data from the fitness tracker and smartphone lets us distinguish between healthy participants and those with MS with a high degree of accuracy," Gashi says.