Overview
unhide® is a digital health platform that helps patients and caregivers track symptoms, identify patterns, and visualize their symptom data over time—information that can be shared with healthcare providers and researchers.
By sharing about their lived experiences and health journeys, our patient community helps drive the search for better diagnostics, treatments, and cures for ME/CFS, Long Covid, and other chronic illnesses. Patients can also choose to be contacted and recruited to participate in clinical trials or research studies.
The Why
Brain inflammation (or neuroinflammation), as a result of autoimmune disease, infection, allergy, or injury, can trigger symptoms such as severe fatigue, depression, anxiety, sleep trouble, brain fog, confusion, and mood changes. These symptoms are often misunderstood but may be driven by the same inflammatory problems that cause physical symptoms in these complex chronic conditions.This connection between brain inflammation and mental health symptoms is often misdiagnosed by healthcare providers leading to confusion and delay of care that the patient deserves. Or even the wrong care.
The connection between mental health and neuroinflammation in chronic illness has been ignored for too long. Few long-term, real-world studies have tracked symptoms of chronic health conditions, brain inflammation, and mood and behavior together. unhide® is working to change that. Now.
We developed unhide® to reduce the barriers to participating in and conducting clinical research, with an ultimate goal of driving advancements that improve quality of life for patients. We want to connect patients that traditionally have not been able to participate in research and make sure their voices are heard.
How unhide® Can Benefit Patients
- Track Your Symptoms
- Connect Wearable Devices
- Link Electronic Health Records
- Download Symptom Data Reports to Share With Providers
- Set Pacing Notifications
- Connect To Research Studies
Are you healthy or have a different diagnosis than the ones listed below? You can make a difference for millions of people and benefit from participating on unhide®
Some of the illnesses we’re currently studying...
Click each box below to learn more about these types of illnesses and conditions.
Please note, some conditions may appropriately fall into more than one category. These examples are intended for illustrative and educational purposes and are not exhaustive.
Neuroimmune, Developmental, Autonomic, and Neurological Conditions
Infection Associated Chronic Conditions & Illnesses
Gastrointestinal & Inflammatory Conditions
Autoimmune Diseases
Behavioral & Mood Disorders
Additional Complex & Systemic Conditions
Enrolling pediatric and teen participants, ages 2 and above.
For too long, children and teenagers have not been able to narrate the lived experience of their illnesses themselves, and their voices have been missing from clinical research. Allowing teens and school-age children to participate directly in unhide® changes that.
Parents and guardians can enroll their young children (ages 2-6) and participate on their behalf. Children (ages 7–12) can complete surveys and track symptoms side-by-side with their parents/guardians. Teens (ages 13+) can enroll themselves with parental consent.
For Researchers & Clinicians
The Brain Inflammation Collaborative plays a critical role in the broader scientific effort to improve children’s and women’s mental and physical health by addressing diseases that contribute to neuroinflammation.
Historically, conditions like Long COVID, chronic Lyme, and autoimmune diseases have been studied in isolation. However, these conditions share overlapping symptoms, treatment responses, and underlying inflammatory and immune dysfunctions.
Our approach complements the work of single-condition advocacy groups by fostering a collective research framework that spans 30+ related diseases. Through our digital health platform, patients from diverse backgrounds can contribute valuable data, allowing for large-scale, cross-disease comparisons that traditional studies often lack.
Our Collaborators
Columbia University
