Apple has slowly but surely been turning its Apple Watch into a tiny medical lab, equipping it with various sensors to paint a picture of the wearer’s health and medical condition.
There is no shortage of anecdotes and testimonies of how every new Apple Watch feature has saved lives, either through diagnosis or prognosis.
Most of those, however, come from the usual heart-related sensors and measurements.
A new study, however, is now looking into whether the Apple Watch can also be used to determine the wearer’s mental health as well.
Mental health is harder to catch than direct physiological problems.
Without voluntarily submitting to scans and checkups, it is nearly impossible to detect dementia or Alzheimer’s until they’re already there.