Phone knows if you are depressed ...

Based on telephone usage, make adjustments and caught by GPS, can understand if you are depressed.

This is the conclusion of a study by Northwestern Medicine, according to which the handset can discover thanks to signs of depression.

For experts, for example, how much time we spend on the phone, the greater is the possibility that we are depressed. One other clue is what we do during the day: to stay at home is a sign of illness.

A depressed man said in the study published in the "Journal of Medical Internet Research", exceed 68 minutes per day on the phone, during which avoids the possibility of thinking of things that do not go. As a person who is not depressed passes just 17 minutes on the phone.

Signs of depression can be taken from the smartphone's GPS, which tells if a person spends more time at home or in a few places, showing the trend of isolation and lack of motivation and energy to come up.

"You can discover if someone has symptoms of depression and extent of these symptoms without asking questions. Already we have an objective measure of behavior associated with depression. And if we discover step by step. The phones are able to give us confidential data without any additional effort by the user, "explains one of the authors of the study, David Mohr. The researchers monitored 28 people, half of whom had symptoms of depression.