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·January 17, 2023·7 min read

Smartphone App Can Significantly Improve Memory Recall

A new smartphone app, dubbed HippoCamera helps to significantly improve memory recall and could have applications for improving memory for those suffering from Alzheimer's disease. The app mimics the function of the hippocampus, constructing and maintaining memories. The app enhances biological memory encoding by boosting attention to daily events and consolidating them more distinctly.

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·February 11, 2021·4 min read

Smartphone App to Change Your Personality

Researchers say a new smartphone app has the power to help change those personality traits you don't like within three months.

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·November 30, 2020·3 min read

App Predicts Risk of Developing Alzheimer’s

A new app combines basic data with information about specific biomarkers found in an individual's blood to assess the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease within two to four years.

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·May 26, 2020·4 min read

Designing technologies that interpret your mood from your skin

A new smart device can measure electrical signals from your skin, providing the potential to track your emotions and stress level.

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·August 8, 2019·2 min read

Happy? Sad? Study Uses AI to Examine What Affects Our Emotions

Using a smartwatch and new app, participants will track their emotional changes for 45 days. The app, called Mindcurrent, uses artificial intelligence to analyze emotional states and provides recommendations on how the user can elevate their mood.

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·July 12, 2019·2 min read

Researchers Are Using Machine Learning to Screen for Autism in Children

With the help of data collected from an online app, researchers have developed a machine learning algorithm which is 90% accurate in determining subsets of behavior associated with ASD.

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·June 4, 2018·2 min read

Does Stabilizing Female Hormones Help Lower Suicide Risk?

Researchers have received funding to help determine if stabilizing progesterone and estradiol will help to reduce suicidality in females at risk of suicide.

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·June 2, 2018·5 min read

Mobile App For Autism Screening Yields Useful Data

Researchers have conducted a study of an iPhone app that screens young children for signs of autism. The study found the app was easy for parents to use and yielded reliable scientific data.

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·June 26, 2017·1 min read

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