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Technology and transcendence: Unshackling psychiatry with mobile health, AI, neuromodulation, and portable EEG informed assessment and care
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Technology and transcendence: Unshackling psychiatry with mobile health, AI, neuromodulation, and portable EEG informed assessment and care

Parameswaran Ramakrishnan
Indian journal of psychiatry, v 68(Suppl 1), pp S141-S141
01 Jan 2026
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4103/indianjpsychiatry_62_26 (S141)
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Background: Psychiatry is undergoing rapid technological transformation. Emerging tools—including mobile apps, artificial intelligence, and neuromodulation—promise to address longstanding challenges such as lack of objective measurement, limited access, treatment delays, fragmented care, and stigma. Content: Systematic review of the technological advances in psychiatry highlights opportunities in digital phenotyping, telepsychiatry, mobile applications, Virtual Reality therapies, and chatbots, while noting barriers in adoption, privacy, and evidence translation. Researchers extend this work by proposing a competency-based framework for mobile health, emphasizing training clinicians in safe and effective digital practice. Certain other Think Tank documents advances in interventional psychiatry, including adaptive closed-loop neuromodulation, artificial intelligence, and brain-computer interfaces—technologies advancing toward personalized, biomarker-driven care. Yet, one technology remains absent from these debates: portable EEG. These devices enable (1) real-time monitoring of neural signatures in mindfulness-based therapies and (2) evidence-based training tools for spiritually informed psychiatric assessment and care. Portable EEG offers an accessible, scalable bridge between neuroscience and spirituality, expanding psychiatry’s scope beyond the biomedical model while preserving scientific rigor. Objectives: This symposium will: (1) Review advances in digital psychiatry, neuromodulation, and mobile health.(2) Highlight the neglected potential of portable EEG.(3) Explore a competency-based framework for integrating these technologies into training and practice, and (4) Critically examine ethical and professional implications, and (5) use of portable EEG in integrating psychiatry and spirituality. Conclusion: By bringing these four bodies of work into dialogue, the symposium charts a pathway toward a holistic, patient-centered psychiatry informed by data, devices, digital literacy, and spiritual integration.

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