App Captures the Boston Bombing’s Psychological Effects – ieee.org article

In April, the software company Cogito was halfway through a clinical trial to see if it could detect symptoms of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through a smartphone app. All of the 100 participants in the study lived around Boston. Then, on 15 April, two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring hundreds. Suddenly, Cogito’s clinical trial was a lot more relevant.

Read the full article here: http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/diagnostics/app-captures-the-boston-bombings-psychological-effects