Computational Psychiatry

RL @ SOBP 2018

Satellite meeting with tutorials on reinforcement learning and a 'data meets model' forum at the 2018 Society for Biological Psychiatry annual meeting in New York City
May 9, 2018

 

About

Computational psychiatry is a rapidly growing field at the intersection of psychiatry, neuroscience and theoretical sciences. In-depth tutorials can greatly enhance the dialogue between fields.

This one-day meeting will provide three tutorials on reinforcement learning. In three two-hour sessions, we will start with the basics of model formulation, validation and fitting, and then move through a broad variety of applications of RL methods to issues across the diagnostic and clinical spectrum.

Slides for the talks are provided below in the programme.

There was also a paired symposium "On the computational structure of mood and anxiety disorders" in the main conference. Slides for some of the talks are here.

Below are some recent publications on the topic.

 
 

Program

May 9, 2018
Hilton Midtown
room Nassau
New York City

Full programme as pdf

  • 8 - 8.50am Coffee & breakfast
  • 8.50 - 9am Opening remarks
  • 9 - 10.45am Reinforcement learning - theory
  • Yael Niv - slides
  • Coffee break
  • 11.15- 11.45amContributed submissions: Data in search of model
  • 11.45 - noon Contributed submissions: Model in search of data
  • Lunch break
  • 1.30 - 3.15pm Building, validating and fitting an RL model
  • Michael Frank - slides
  • Coffee break
  • 3.45 - 5.30pm Applying RL to mental health
  • Quentin Huys - slides
  • 5.30 - 6pm Discussion & closing remarks

Speakers

Yael Niv

Yael Niv

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Michael Frank

Michael Frank

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Quentin Huys

Quentin Huys

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Data meets model forum

There will be two sessions, each containing up to six 5-minute contributed presentations. The aim is to foster collaborations between theoreticians and experimentalists by allowing for specific data / theoretical ideas to be presented to the other 'side'.

Data in search of model: Submissions for this session should describe datasets and briefly outline the modelling questions they raise.

Model in search of data: Submissions for this session should describe the models and the theoretical predictions and may briefly outline possible experimental approaches.

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Registration

Registration is now closed.

Deadlines & Fees

DeadlineFee
Standard registrationuntil March 15th 2017US$ 50
Late registrationafter March 15th 2017US$ 80

All fees have to be paid in cash on the day.

Organizers

The idea for this satellite arose in close connection with the Transcontinental Computational Psychiatry Workgroup TCPW, a monthly web-based meeting for computational psychiatry. We are very grateful for the support through the Society of Biological Psychiatry, and particularly its past President Kerry Ressler and its present President Carol Tamminga.

Michael Browning

Michael Browning

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Quentin Huys

Quentin Huys

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Martin Paulus

Martin Paulus

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