Personalised monitoring SYstems for Care in mental HEalth (PSYCHE) Project

The Personalised monitoring SYstems for Care in mental HEalth (PSYCHE) project is focusing on mental diseases management, in particular it is targeting bipolar patients. The project will use a novel approach based on the paradigm that a 24 hours monitoring in a natural setting, through a naturalistic approach will provide parameters, indexes and trends; that will be used to assess mood status, to support patients, to predict and anticipate treatment response at its earlier phases, to prevent relapse and to alert physicians in case of critical events.

PSYCHE will develop a personal, cost-effective, multi-parametric monitoring system based on textile platforms and portable sensing devices for the long term and short term acquisition of data from selected class of patients affected by mood disorders. The project will develop novel portable devices for the monitoring of biochemical markers, voice analysis and a behavioral index correlated to patient state. Additionally, brain functional studies will be performed under specific experimental protocols in order to correlate central measures with the clinical assessment, and the parameters measured by Psyche platform. The acquired data will be processed and analyzed in the established platform that takes into consideration the electronic health records (EHR) of the patient.