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Review
. 2017 Mar 7;7(3):e1053.
doi: 10.1038/tp.2017.25.

New dimensions and new tools to realize the potential of RDoC: digital phenotyping via smartphones and connected devices

J Torous  1   2 , J-P Onnela  3 , M Keshavan  1
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Review

New dimensions and new tools to realize the potential of RDoC: digital phenotyping via smartphones and connected devices

J Torous et al. Transl Psychiatry. .

Abstract

Mobile and connected devices like smartphones and wearable sensors can facilitate the collection of novel naturalistic and longitudinal data relevant to psychiatry at both the personal and population level. The National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria framework offers a useful roadmap to organize, guide and lead new digital phenotyping data towards research discoveries and clinical advances.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Although smartphone data may already help identify symptoms in those with recognized illness (colored red), the potential of using an RDoC framework extends to the general population with preclinical as well as non-observable symptoms (colored blue), smartphones will enable large-scale RDoC-guided data collection that may reveal trans-diagnostic extended phenotypes. This figure only shows a subset of the RDoC matrix, which includes further constructs not displayed. EEG, electroencephalogram; RDoC, Research Domain Criteria.
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