- UK startup launches Flow, a chatbot therapist engages users with daily chat conversations and offers self-help techniques, mood tracking, curated videos, meditation, and mental exercises. - Available to download free on iOS, the chatbot therapist is based on the latest psychology and neuroscience research and was developed by clinical psychologists and machine learning experts. - To maximize the chance of recovery, Flow can be used in conjunction with the Flow brain stimulation
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Depression Mobile Health Apps
AbleTo Acquires Digital Therapy App Joyable to Strengthen Virtual Behavioral Healthcare
AbleTo, Inc., a provider of virtual behavioral healthcare proven to improve clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs has acquired Joyable, an app-based digital therapy innovator. The acquisition strengthens AbleTo's high-quality virtual behavioral healthcare with a digital platform that delivers clinically-based therapies supported by coaches to help individuals overcome depression, generalized anxiety, and social anxiety.Founded in 2014, Joyable offers users expert-designed digital
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Pfizer Launches “Moodivator” App to Help Patients Monitor Depression
Pfizer has developed a new mobile health app named Moodivator to help motivate to help motivate and encourage the millions of adults who experience depression. An estimated 1 in 15 adults experience at least one major depressive episode in any given year. To help support, encourage and motivate people with depression, the new app is designed to help patients set and achieve manageable goals—in areas from wellness to treatment—and turn those goals into routines. Patients can regularly log your
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