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neurologist who could see a 
patient with disease A today 
and disease B tomorrow, we 
couldn’t develop a separate 
app for every test. Eventually 
we developed an app that’s 
like a media player for tests 
instead of songs.”
Once a doctor anonymously 
registers the patient using one 
version of the app, the patient 
receives a link to a compact 
and custom version with 
reminders when to perform 
the tests. The app is also able 
to passively collect data such 
as the patient’s walking rate 
and number of steps.

PSYCHIATRIC UTILITY
Mon4t’s app is already 
FDA-approved for patients 
with motor and cognitive 
impairments, and now the 
company is moving into the 
psychiatric domain. For that, 
the company has partnered 
with Professor Abraham 
Peled, a department chair at 
the Shaar Menashe mental 
health center and one of 
the first in the world to use 
mathematical models of psy-
chiatric psychopathology in 
his post-doctoral research on 
neural networks.
“With this app, the doctor 
performs the usual diagnosis 
because it’s important to me 
that it will be an evolution, not 
a revolution compared to what 
we know,
” Peled said. 
“Simultaneously, the patient 
reports on his own condition. 
Now, we also have a subjective-
objective platform that samples 
the patient’s motor ability 
and unrest, his speech and, 
in the future, his ability to 
communicate with others. 
Each validates the other. 
“In recent years, we’ve 
known that psychosis, 
the most extreme part of 

psychiatric illness, is related 
to disconnection syndrome in 
the cerebral cortex. With this 
platform, you can predict that 
the patient will be diagnosed 
with it before seeing that in 
MRI. In the future, it can be 
the basis for pacemakers in 
the brain.”
All that data is attached 
to physiological data from 
the clinic. The name Mon4t 
comes from the monitoring 
of four dimensions — motor, 
cognitive, affective and 
physiological — over time.
Peled often says that if you 
let 10 psychiatrists diagnose 
the same patient and five 
of them were in agreement, 
it would be an impressive 
achievement.
“In medicine, the diagnosis 
system is etiological — the 
name of the disease is also 
its cause. In psychiatry, the 
system is descriptive,” Peled 
said. “When the patient 
says, ‘I feel depressed,’ and 
the doctor says, ‘You have 
depression,’ the patient thinks, 
‘I’ve just told you that!’ If 
you tell a doctor that your 
stomach hurts, you won’t be 
satisfied if he says, ‘You have a 
stomach ache.’ 
“In the long term, the 
platform will let a doctor 
provide a translator that tells 
the patient what’s wrong 
with him. It can trigger some 
kind of a revolution in the 
rephrasing and discovery of 
diseases. I think Mon4t will 
catalyze it.” 

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