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Helping universities combat depression with mobile technology

  • Written by Mi Zhang, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University
imageA smartphone could help people fight depression.Woman with phone via shutterstock.com

Depression is the leading mental health issue on college campuses in the U.S. In 2015, a survey of more than 90,000 students at 108 American colleges and universities found that during the previous year, more than one-third of them had felt so depressed at some...

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