Dror Ben-Zeev

TL;DR: A Dartmouth term lifecycle is identified in the data that shows students start the term with high positive affect and conversation levels, low stress, and healthy sleep and daily activity patterns, while stress appreciably rises while positive affect, sleep, conversation and activity drops off.

TL;DR: The feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of the FOCUS intervention for schizophrenia is demonstrated and a new treatment model which has promise for extending the reach of evidence-based care beyond the confines of a physical clinic using widely available technologies is introduced.

TL;DR: Smartphones can be harnessed as instruments for unobtrusive monitoring of several behavioral indicators of mental health and creative leveraging of smartphone sensing could provide novel opportunities for close-to-invisible psychiatric assessment at a scale and efficiency that far exceeds what is currently feasible with existing assessment technologies.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that low-intensity text-messaging interventions like MATS are feasible and effective interventions to improve several important outcomes, especially for higher functioning consumers with schizophrenia.

TL;DR: A smartphone system that targets medication adherence, mood regulation, sleep, social functioning, and coping with symptoms for people with schizophrenia is developed, and the system was adapted to address consumer needs and preferences accordingly.