The startup deploys AI to monitor patients' mental health symptoms, for depression and anxiety.A startup that uses AI to detect, assess, and trackLondon-based Thymia launched in 2020 after cofounder and CEO Dr Emilia Molimpakis saw her best friend struggling with depression while at university. Given the"subjective" nature of mental health diagnoses, doctors hadn't realized the severity of her friend's condition, Molimpakis said.
"These three streams go into AI models. We produce two types of outputs; whether people may have depression and anxiety, and also we look at symptoms and look at how they're experiencing depression," said Molimpakis. The assessment for anxiety or depression takes around 10 minutes and requires patients to complete a set of tasks that gather data across these three categories, to detect the onset of symptoms. This is then sent to the clinician, who evaluates the severity of the condition, so it can be monitored.