NIMH Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: Decision-Making and Computational Psychiatry
NIMH Director’s Innovation Speaker Series: Decision-Making and Computational PsychiatryOn November 12, Dr. Martin Paulus, Scientific Director and President of the Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was the guest speaker in the NIMH Director’s Innovation Speaker Series, which focuses on innovation, invention, and scientific discovery. Learn more about this series: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/innovation-speaker-series/index.shtml.
Dr. Paulus discussed whether computational approaches to psychiatry – using computer models to describe the relationship between the brain's neurobiology, its environment, and mental symptoms – can be useful to better develop and rigorously test an explanatory basis for mental disorders.