A New Smartphone App Could Detect Mental Illness Just From Hearing Your Voice

Those diagnosed with bipolar disorder have notorious difficulty adhering to their medications. Not only do mood modulations require medication adjustments, but people who experience episodes of mania often develop, as one of their symptoms, the conviction that medication is unnecessary. This makes patients often noncompliant at the moment they have the greatest need for the stabilizing effects of psychopharmaceuticals. More globally, bipolar disorder often remains under-treated — particularly in communities where mental health resources are scarce. …