{"title":"Setting digital psychiatry in motion: towards dynamic digital markers for digital phenotyping.","authors":"Axel Constant, C Emre Koksal, Lena Palaniyappan","doi":"10.1038/s44277-026-00059-y","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Digital phenotyping uses data from smartphones and wearables to extract behavioural and biosocial markers of psychopathology in situ. Traditional entropy-based measures capture static system properties that neglect temporal dependencies critical to psychiatric phenomena. We propose a \"dynamic\" approach to the modelling of digital data capturing the time-varying aspects of processes of mental disorders. We defend that the resulting dynamic digital markers better capture variability in regulatory mechanisms of psychopathology.</p>","PeriodicalId":520008,"journal":{"name":"NPP-digital psychiatry and neuroscience","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12982652/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"NPP-digital psychiatry and neuroscience","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s44277-026-00059-y","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Digital phenotyping uses data from smartphones and wearables to extract behavioural and biosocial markers of psychopathology in situ. Traditional entropy-based measures capture static system properties that neglect temporal dependencies critical to psychiatric phenomena. We propose a "dynamic" approach to the modelling of digital data capturing the time-varying aspects of processes of mental disorders. We defend that the resulting dynamic digital markers better capture variability in regulatory mechanisms of psychopathology.