This narrative review describes recent developments in the use of technology for utilizing the self-monitoring of mood, provides some relevant background, and suggests some promising directions.
The MONARCA system allowed for electronic subjective self-monitoring of mood, sleep, activity level, irritability, stress, medicine intake, alcohol consumption and other subjective personal measures and included a bi-directional feedback loop between patients and health care providers.
We have described three examples in which frequent monitoring of subjective mood ratings are being utilized in an attempt to identify the offsprings of bipolar parents at high risk of becoming later ill, to forecast the time of future episodes of illness and to select the optimal mood stabilizer for the patient.
One clinical benefit of daily charting may be to improve the detection and monitoring of subsyndromal mood symptoms.
As previously noted, alterations in prefrontal areas can also impair many executive functions including attention, planning, monitoring of performance, mood regulation and behavioral adjustment; all of can be disrupted in MDD [ 10, 43].
We utilized a modified Delphi Method to develop a document for use with potential AD secondary prevention study participants to describe the process of amyloid imaging and the implications of amyloid imaging results; and a disclosure process with attention to ongoing monitoring of both mood and safety to receive this information.
We developed a document for use with potential study participants to describe the process of amyloid imaging and the implications of amyloid imaging results; and a disclosure process with attention to ongoing monitoring of both mood and safety to receive this information.
To start with, self-monitoring of mood can be helpful in clinical practice when evaluating whether a given treatment is useful.
This shift, however, provided only a limited improvement in the understanding of mood disorders, and it appears that self-monitoring of mood has the potential to enrich our knowledge, particularly when combined with the advances in technology.
