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Online card game MoodScope helps you track your happiness levels

Online card game MoodScope helps you track your happiness levels

Apps, websites and gadgets that target your mental and spiritual wellbeing are said to be the next hot thing in health and fitness tech. We’ve mentioned a few in the past, such as Mindbloom, and the latest to hit the web is MoodScope. MoodScope.com takes the fun element of games (in this instance cards) to help you track your mood every day. Free to join, you can track your highs and lows by logging on and … Read entire article »

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iThinkSmarter when it comes to your mental health

iThinkSmarter when it comes to your mental health

More and more apps are coming out to help people with their mental health and iThinkSmarter is another addition to this market. The app, developed for iPhone, is a free guide to help people with how to deal with psychological problems such as stress, anxiety, depression and panic. The free version is based around a series of questionnaires asking users questions relating to their problem. Their answers to questions will then guide them to what the … Read entire article »

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Mindfulness app reminds you to meditate and calm down

Mindfulness app reminds you to meditate and calm down

A new app has been launched by MindApps, which aims to help people become mindful, meditate with ease and generally ensure they’re more productive, happy and awesome in the process. The Mindfulness App allows you to set reminders for yourself throughout the day, so you remember to down tools and take some time out. The app then helps you to meditate by guiding you with a voice or playing calming, ringing bells. You can also design your … Read entire article »

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Could voice recognition technology identify Parkinson’s early?

Could voice recognition technology identify Parkinson’s early?

Although Parkinson’s can be debilitating to those suffering from it, there are lots of early warning signs that the disease might develop in the future, which could help to manage symptoms before they progress. At the moment there’s no definitive way to diagnose Parkinson’s, doctors carry out a series of tests and medical imaging to rule out other conditions. However, mathematician and all-round brainy guy Max Little has been working on a way to develop software that … Read entire article »

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Whats MyM3 tries (and fails) to identify mental health issues

Whats MyM3 tries (and fails) to identify mental health issues

We’ve come across a few apps and services in the last few months that claim they can spot signs of mental health within users. You should check out our recent posts on Buddy and Mindbloom. Well now we can add another to the list – iOS app Whats MyM3. WhatsMyM3 is available as a mobile app ($2.99 for iPhone, iPad and Android), or free on the Web. M3Clinician is a version for physicians. The medical team behind … Read entire article »

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Keep the blues at bay with the Depression Mood Monitor app

Keep the blues at bay with the Depression Mood Monitor app

With Depression Awareness Week taking place from 22nd – 28th April and the last few days in London having been very rainy, we decided we wanted to find an app that could help us monitor our moods. The Depression Mood Monitor app lets users track mood changes as they happen (much like MyFitnessPal does with calories), and records them in a very simple, easy-to-read chart format. It also features comment and alert functions, and a one-step … Read entire article »

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Improve your physical and mental health with Mindbloom – the life game

Improve your physical and mental health with Mindbloom – the life game

There is a whole range of apps and gadgets on the market that will help you look after your health, such as tracking your calorie intake or monitoring your sleep patterns, but how do you go about monitoring life improvement? Visualising your dreams and aspirations, whether it is fitting into that LBD or getting promoted, is a good way to ensure you maintain focus and continue to strive for that goal. But sometimes time and, ironically, … Read entire article »

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Explore the anatomy of the brain with online game ahead of Wellcome Collection’s Brains exhibition

Explore the anatomy of the brain with online game ahead of Wellcome Collection’s Brains exhibition

The Wellcome Collection has launched Axon a free online game in which people can explore the anatomy of the brain, clicking on protein targets to grow a neuron, ahead of the opening of its new exhibition ‘Brains: The mind as matter’. In the fast-paced game, players are set the task of making as many of the brain’s 100 trillion connections as they can and challenges them to grow their neurons as long as possible. Climbing through … Read entire article »

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Stressed? Depressed? Feeling unhappy? There’s an app for that

Stressed? Depressed? Feeling unhappy? There’s an app for that

Modern day life can throw you a lot of curveballs, leaving you feeling stressed, a bit blue or even mildly depressed. Sometimes putting on your favourite track on repeat can help you pull out the dark mood and clear the heavy clouds from your head. But if you’re worried that it may be more than just a fleeting feeling, with the rise of mobile health technology and smartphones  there’s now an easy way of checking. … Read entire article »

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Smartphone that treats depression underway

Smartphone that treats depression underway

Spotting the symptoms of depression can be difficult – here is a video that tells you more about it – but there might soon be a smartphone on the market that does just that. Scientists at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Center are developing inventing a smartphone that can spot symptoms of depression in its user and take immediate actions to counter it in real time. This is part of a series of other … Read entire article »

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