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. 2019 Oct 28:2019:10.31478/201910b.
doi: 10.31478/201910b. eCollection 2019.

Empowering 8 Billion Minds: Enabling Better Mental Health for All via the Ethical Adoption of Technologies

P Murali Doraiswamy  1 , Elisha London  2 , Peter Varnum  3 , Barbara Harvey  4 , Shekhar Saxena  5 , Simon Tottman  4 , Sir Philip Campbell  6 , Alvaro Fernández Ibáñez  7 , Husseini Manji  8 , Mohammad Abdul Aziz Sultan Al Olama  9 , I-Han Chou  10 , Helen Herrman  11 , Sung-Jin Jeong  12 , Tan Le  13 , Caroline Montojo  14 , Bjarte Reve  15 , Karen S Rommelfanger  16 , Charlotte Stix  17 , Nitish Thakor  18 , Kim Hei-Man Chow  19 , Andrew E Welchman  20 , Vanessa Candeias  21
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Empowering 8 Billion Minds: Enabling Better Mental Health for All via the Ethical Adoption of Technologies

P Murali Doraiswamy et al. NAM Perspect. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict-of-Interest Disclosures: The Global Future Council on Neurotechnologies receives non-financial support from the World Economic Forum and Accenture. Dr. Doraiswamy reports non-financial support from Janssen outside of this work. Dr. Doraiswamy also reports personal fees from Neuronix, Cognoptix, Anthrotronix, Genomind, Apollo Health, and NeuroPro outside of this work. Dr. Doraiswamy also reports grants from Avanir, Lilly, ADDF, CAF, Wrenn Trust, NIH, and DoD outside of this work. Dr. Doraiswamy also reports stock holdings in Anthrotronix, Turtle Shell Tech, Evidation, and Advera Health Analytics. Mr. Varnum reports non-financial support from Accenture. Dr. Le is Founder and CEO of EMOTIV Inc. Dr. Le has also been issued patents numbered 9,867,548; 9,763,592; 9,622,660; 10,028,703; 10,194,865; 10,108,264; and 10,291,977. Dr. Le has the following pending patents: US-2013-0035579; US-2018-0317794; 16/391,071; 16/390,881; and 62/716,969. Dr. Manji is a salaried employee of Janssen Research and Development, LLC.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Technology has the potential to support individuals across the mental healthcare continuum
SOURCE: Developed by authors.
Figure 2
Figure 2. Prevalence of mental health and substance use disorders, worldwide, 2016
SOURCE: IHME, Global Burden of Disease
Figure 3
Figure 3. Psychiatrists working in mental health sector (per 100,000 population)
SOURCE: World Health Organization 2019
Figure 4
Figure 4. The mental healthcare technology ecosystem
SOURCE: Developed by authors.
Figure 5
Figure 5. The growing market for health and fitness apps
SOURCE: Mobile data and analytics provider, App Annie. May 2019.
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References

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    1. Examples of sources include BiTC in the UK. [4/6/2019]. https://ourworldindata.org/global-mental-health.
    1. World Health Organization Fact Sheet on Depression. [4/6/2019]. https://www.who.int/news-room/factsheets/detail/depression.

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