One third of the population will suffer from some form of mental disorder once in their lifetime. Researchers at UCL and the Neuroscience Center Zurich founded by the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich have joined forces in using innovative approaches for understanding changes in brain function that result in mental health disorders, such as schizophrenia or depression. This “computational psychiatry” approach brings together expertise from neuroscience, psychiatry and mathematics in order to develop models of brain circuits and the algorithms they implement. These models can be applied to behavioural and brain imaging data of individual patients, with the goal of inferring disease mechanisms and predicting treatment response.
ACADEMIC WORKSHOP: 13.00–18.00 (On invite only)
Advances in computational neuroimaging
Raymond J Dolan, Director of the Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Kinross Professor of Neuropsychiatry at UCL
Dominik R Bach, Professor for Clinical Psychiatry Research at University of Zurich
PUBLIC LECTURE: 18.15–19.15
Computational Psychiatry – Using mathematical models to help understand mental health disorders
Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Klaas Enno Stephan, Translational Neuromodeling Unit (TNU), Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Zurich & ETH Zurich