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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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