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MIND Migraine Study Completed 3,688 Smartphone Cognition Assessments

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The MIND migraine feasibility study showed that remote migraine-cognition monitoring can produce a large daily dataset: 177 baseline participants completed 3,688 smartphone assessments, covering 70.8% of possible study days.1 The finding supports digital migraine endpoint infrastructure while leaving treatment effects and diagnostic thresholds untested. Research Highlights Daily monitoring was feasible: Participants completed 3,688 daily smartphone …

Positive Emoji Use Tracked Lower Depression in 120 Students

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Low-burden digital phenotyping is appealing because college students already leave daily traces in phones, messages, sleep logs, and voice samples. In Henry et al.’s 120-student study, positive emoji use was the clearest signal compared with GPS and complex voice biomarkers: higher positive emoji use tracked lower depression and anxiety, while speech rate and sleep added …

Digital Mental Health Visualizations: 6 Tools for Anxiety, Depression

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A 2026 participatory-design and case-study paper turned smartphone mental-health data into 6 clinician-facing visualizations for an 8-week anxiety/depression digital clinic, using feedback from 15 clinicians and 3 clinical supervisors. The useful claim is workflow-level: charts made passive sensing and symptom ratings discussable inside care, but the paper did not test whether the visualizations improved clinical …