Digital Mental Health: Artificial Intelligence, mHealth, and Telepsychiatry

This chapter examines the rapidly expanding role of digital technologies in psychiatric research, diagnosis, and care delivery, with emphasis on artificial intelligence, machine learning, smartphone-based applications, and remote care platforms. It reviews evidence for the effectiveness of digital interventions across various psychiatric conditions and explores how passive data collection and predictive algorithms may augment clinical decision-making. The chapter also addresses the ethical, regulatory, and equity dimensions of deploying digital mental health tools at scale.