Says Dr. Brackett, “The Mood Meter App extends the reach of this evidence into a tool to support people at home, at work, and in other social situations in a user-friendly, private way.

According to statistics from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 3.7 percent of children ages 8 to 15 have a mood disorder.

It’s the morning after Halloween, and the kids at Tacoma’s First Creek Middle School are excited — and slightly exhausted — after an evening of sugary treats.

T he study, which focused on children aged 8 to 12, found that those who reported feeling lower in mood were significantly more likely to have wandering thoughts -particularly focused on the past ...

Dec. 26 (UPI) --Brain imaging may help identify children at risk for mood disorders as they grow up, a new study suggests. In findings published Thursday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, ...

The specialist: The chief of the Pediatric Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at Mount Sinai, Dr. Vilma Gabbay, is a psychiatrist who specializes in treating mood and anxiety disorders in children … ...

“Mood Meter” uses real-time facial recognition to create a live interactive display of how entire rooms and buildings are feeling. Unfortunately, the real thing is just a wee bit ugly at this ...

Smile for the camera. It may be keeping track! For the next six weeks on the campus of MIT, graduate students Javier Hernandez and M. Ehsan Hoque are turning smiles into data, and using that data ...