Connectionists: International Computational Psychiatry Course in Zurich

[Petzschner Frederike]

International Computational Psychiatry Course (CPC2016)
Zurich
29th August - 2nd September

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The ETH and University of Zurich are hosting a 5 day international course on Computational Psychiatry.

ABOUT


The course is meant to be practically useful for students and scientists who would like to apply modelling techniques to study learning, decision-making and brain physiology in patients with psychiatric disorders. It will not only teach the theory of computational modeling, but also demonstrate open source software from multiple labs in it’s application to example data sets. The goal is that students attending this course can go home with a clear idea of which freely available software exists and how it can be applied to concrete problems, enabling them to use computational models with more expertise and confidence in their own scientific work.


STRUCTURE


The course will consist of four parts:

  *   Day 1 will cover topics in Psychiatry (Mood disorders, Autism, Addiction, Psychosis) providing a conceptual basis for the type of questions that Computational Psychiatry will need to address.
  *   Day 2 will explain basic modelling principles: Model Selection, Model Averaging, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)
  *   Day 3 and 4 will include presentations on existing modelling techniques and the application of open source software to concrete problems and datasets: Drift-Diffusion Modeling, Bayesian models for perception, Markov Decision Processes, Reinforcement Learning, Predictive Coding, Machine Learning Techniques, Hierarchical Gaussian Filter, Dynamic Causal Modeling...
  *   Day 5 will feature a series of talks on practical applications of computational models to problems from psychiatry and neuroeconomics.



SPEAKERS


Eduardo Aponte
Dominik Bach
Rafal Bogacz
Christian Büchel
Ed Bullmore
Huang Crane
Jean Daunizeau
Nathaniel Daw
Hanneke Den Ouden
Stefan Frässle
Karl Friston
Helene Haker Rössler
Jakob Heinzle
Quentin Huys

Christoph Mathys
Janaina Miranda
Read Montague
Rosalyn Moran
Saee Paliwal
Martin Paulus
Frederike Petzschner
Lionel Rigoux
Katharina Schmack
Dario Schöbi
Philipp Schwartenbeck
Peggy Series
Klaas Enno Stephan
Lilian Weber


REGISTRATION


Course registration is now open: http://www.translationalneuromodeling.org/cpcourse/









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