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In both cases—and for various reasons—patients are not getting the necessary health care services.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class='primary-block text-block stream-block'> <div class='primary-block-content'> <div class='main-copy'> <h2 style="margin-top: 40px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: "Neue Haas Grotesk Display", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 22px;">The Media Lab’s View </span></h2><p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: "Neue Haas Grotesk Display", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 18px;">There is an opportunity to revolutionize and improve mental and physical wellbeing using digital technologies and human-computer interaction. </span></p><ul style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-family: "Neue Haas Grotesk Display", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><li style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 18px;">Digital Mental Health<br></span>There is an opportunity to revolutionize and improve mental wellbeing using digital technologies such as wearables/nearables and immersive systems embedded with physiological and brain sensors, AI and machine learning technologies, and HCI technologies for issuing interventions. These new wearables/nearables monitor and process personal data, detect problems early, and can (with forthcoming advances in AI) formulate and provide personalized interventions and connectivity to peers and professionals who can support optimal wellbeing. The Media Lab conducts translational research at the intersection of brain and behavior sciences and digital technologies. Our focus is on designing, developing, and evaluating new digital technologies for monitoring, predicting, and intervening for mental wellbeing in naturalistic settings. </li><li style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-size: 18px;">Enhancing human physical capability<br></span>Research from the Biomechatronics group, in conjunction with the K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics, pioneers transformational bionic interventions across a broad range of conditions affecting the body and mind, accelerating the merging of body and machine. We seek to restore function to individuals who have impaired mobility due to trauma or disease, and to develop technologies that augment human performance beyond what nature intends.</li></ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class='primary-block button-set-block'> <div class='primary-block-content'> <div class='button-set-content'> <a href='https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/connected-mind-body-advancing-women-s-health/' class='button'>Connected Mind + Body: Advancing Women's Health</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class='primary-block text-block stream-block'> <div class='primary-block-content'> <div class='main-copy'> <h2>Watch videos related to the Connected Mind + Body Research Theme:</h2> </div> </div> </div> <div class='primary-block markdown-block stream-block'> <div class='primary-block-content'> <div class='main-copy'> <p><a href="https://www.media.mit.edu/videos/media-lab-research-theme-connected-mind-and-body/"> <img 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