Mental Healthcare at Our Fingertips | John Curtin | TEDxOshkosh

Mental Healthcare at Our Fingertips | John Curtin | TEDxOshkosh

We are experiencing a mental health crisis in the U.S. with many millions of people not receiving the treatment they desperately need. This talk explores how two emerging technological innovations, Digital Therapeutics and Personal Sensing, can address this crisis by delivering highly scalable treatment and other supports that can be precisely tailored to the specific needs of the person and their moment in time.

John Curtin, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the Director of Clinical Training for the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at UW-Madison and the Director of the Addiction Research Center.

His program of research uses personal sensing and machine learning techniques for psychiatric diagnosis and risk prediction, precision medicine, and “just-in-time” interventions for substance use and other psychiatric disorders. His scholarship has been recognized by grants from the National Institutes of Health and awards from the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science and UW-Madison. Professor Curtin also contributes to UW-Madison’s teaching mission, offering courses on substance use disorders, statistics, and applied machine learning. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx