Digital Phenotyping: Technology for a New Science of Behavior

Type Journal Article Author Thomas R. Insel URL https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2017.11295 Volume 318 Issue 13 Pages 1215-1216 Publication JAMA ISSN 0098-7484 Date 2017-10-03 Journal Abbr JAMA DOI 10.1001/jama.2017.11295 Accessed 2022-07-06 15:26:26 Library Catalog Silverchair Abstract Traditionally, psychiatry has offered clinical insights through keen behavioral observation and a deep study of emotion. With the subsequent biological revolution in psychiatry displacing psychoanalysis, some psychiatrists were concerned that the field shifted from “brainless” to “mindless.” Over the past 4 decades, behavioral expertise, once the strength of psychiatry, has diminished in importance as psychiatric research focused on pharmacology, genomics, and neuroscience, and much of psychiatric practice has become a series of brief clinical interactions focused on medication management. In research settings, assigning a diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has become a surrogate for behavioral observation. In practice, few clinicians measure emotion, cognition, or behavior with any standard, validated tools. Short Title Digital Phenotyping