Medical Xpress August 15, 2023
By Samantha Laine Perfas, Harvard University

You can already track your steps, your sleep—why not track your mood? Apple’s latest software updates for its iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch will now allow users to log and track their moods. They are far from the first tech company to offer this, but with the rising concerns over mental health across the nation it raises the question of whether mood-tracking apps are effective.

Jukka-Pekka Onnela is an associate professor of biostatistics and co-director of the Master of Science in Health Data Science program in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He studies how data collected from can help us understand our social interactions, behavior, and moods. The Gazette spoke with Onnela to better understand...

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