Neureka

Mental health conditions affect 1 in 4 people around the world. The personal, societal and economic burden of mental disorders continues to rise globally. Through decades of research, we have identified important risk factors for mental health, like early stress or neglect, and have built an enormous body of knowledge regarding cognitive and brain changes that go hand in hand with mental illness. Unfortunately, this research has typically taken a high level view - studying groups of people and looking for associations with diagnostic categories like depression. This means that we really struggle to help people in the real world. If we take any individual person, we cannot predict if and when they will develop mental illness or what will cause their specific illness. Predicting who will respond to what treatment is also a challenge. Remarkably, about HALF of people who start an antidepressant won’t get better.

At Neureka, we aim to change that. We want to conduct the largest and most detailed study of YOU that has ever been attempted. By playing games and telling Neureka how you feel, day by day, we aim to figure out how mental health issues evolve over time. Neureka wants to know why some people are more resilient than others, how our mood and behaviour relate to one another and the environment and how they can kick-start vicious cycles that are difficult to break free from.