A smart health connected bracelet to prevent depression

January 06, 2020

One in five people would have suffered from depression once in their life in France. This is huge, especially when you know the difficulties in diagnosing the disease. It is therefore not surprising to find that, like other evils, smart health connected objects are used for prevention. The latest example: a smart health connected bracelet that would help identify the disease more clearly.

Anti-depression bracelet soon to be tested

We talked about it a short time ago, smart health connected bracelets are able to read our emotions. Today, we are going a little further by addressing a smart health connected bracelet capable of detecting depression at the user’s (much like the Iwaku smart health connected alarm clock). How it works ? In collecting a lot of data, to the both behavioral and physiological, from the user. Blood pressure, heart rate, perceived light and even skin acidity would be all indicators, which could be recorded and interpreted by this smart health connected bracelet.

Based on physical criteria, the device would be able to distinguish between simple depression and true depression, which must be medically treated.

"This bracelet will help us sort it out. And if it’s alarming, it will allow better care. ”, Explain Phillipe Nuss, psychiatrist at Saint-Antoine hospital (XIIth arrondissement of Paris).

Saint-Antoine Hospital is the establishment that, as of February 2016, will participate in the Review of this smart health connected bracelet in order to gauge its effectiveness. If the latter works, it will be a good way to identify depression much earlier, which is one of the diseases detected too late (when it is).

The reason ? The lack of training of general practitioners in this area, which means that symptoms often go unnoticed. If it works, the smart health connected bracelet should therefore help specialists to see more clearly, but will also be of service to the patient.

"It can also make the patient feel guilty, continues Doctor Nuss. Because depression is not only in the head, it causes real physical pain. Today, we know that it is not just a story of poorly functioning neurotransmitters, disturbed chemical signals. In fact, several areas of the brain are affected and there is an abnormality in the distribution of information between them. This bracelet allows you to determine what type of depression you are facing. "

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