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Computational Psychiatry Seminar Series

The Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research presents a weekly, academic term time, computational psychiatry seminar series. The seminar series covers topics ranging from theoretical and basic neuroscience/psychology, to clinical and translational studies. Talks are typically on a Thursday at 2PM UK time and hosted in a hybrid format. Zoom links are available for remote audiences.

Currently Tricia Seow & Xin Zhang organise the seminar series. Please get in touch to opt in or out of the mailing list.

Talk Schedule

Timings are in UK time.
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  • Date
    Time
    Speaker
    Title
  • 12 Sep
    2:00 PM
    Emerson Harkin
    *A prospective code for value in the serotonin system
  • 3 Oct
    2:00 PM
    Bernhard Staresina
    *Memory consolidation during sleep: mechanisms and representations
  • 10 Oct
    2:00 PM
    Lilian Weber
    *A computational perspective on causal interventions in psychiatry
  • 17 Oct
    2:00 PM
    Kobe Desender
    *Neurocomputational underpinnings of confidence in the context of prior beliefs
  • 24 Oct
    2:00 PM
    Timothy O'Leary
    *Dynamics of neural representation
  • 31 Oct
    2:30 PM
    Nicolas Schuck
    *Learning of successor representations through on-task replay in the visual cortex
  • 7 Nov
    2:00 PM
    William Orwig
    *Cognitive neuroscience of creativity
  • 21 Nov
    2:00 PM
    Max Rollwage
    Safe and effective generative clinical AI in mental healthcare
  • 28 Nov
    2:00 PM
    Mona Garvert
    Hippocampal and prefrontal representations underlying flexible decision-making
  • 5 Dec
    2:00 PM
    Benjamin Kubit
    *Earworms, memory consolidation, and neural replay for recently heard music
  • 12 Dec
    2:00 PM
    Sebastijan Veselic
    *The neural code underlying flexible choice and compositional reasoning
  • Date
    Time
    Speaker
    Title
  • 25 Jan
    2:00 PM
    David Lagnado
    *Causality in Mind: Learning, Reasoning and Blaming
  • 1 Feb
    2:00 PM
    Fabien Vinckier
    *Moodeling: A neuro-computational assessment of mood fluctuations and their impact on decision-making
  • 8 Feb
    2:00 PM
    Mathias Sable-Meyer
    *Human cognition of geometric shapes: a window into the mental representation of abstract concepts
  • 15 Feb
    2:00 PM
    Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana
    *Computational network models for flexible decision making in health and disease
  • 22 Feb
    2:00 PM
    Charley Wu
    *Steering by the torch of chaos and doubt
  • 7 Mar
    2:00 PM
    Marcelo Mattar
    *A recurrent network model of planning predicts hippocampal replay and human behaviour
  • 21 Mar
    2:00 PM
    Francesco Vigano
    *Spectral graph theory: an introduction and some applications
  • 18 Apr
    2:00 PM
    Neil Bramley
    *Staying afloat on Neurath's Boat
  • 25 Apr
    2:00 PM
    Elvisha Dhamala
    *Leveraging brain-based predictive models to understand the neural underpinnings of psychiatric risk
  • 2 May
    2:00 PM
    Brenden Lake
    *Addressing two classic debates in cognitive science with AI
  • 9 May
    2:00 PM
    Paolo Rossini
    *Functional and dynamic characteristics of neuronal assemblies explored via EEG and graph theory: from healthy aging to neurodegenerative dementias
  • 23 May
    2:00 PM
    Shervin Safavi
    *Approaching perceptual choices as internal actions
  • 30 May
    2:00 PM
    Keir Yong
    *Progressive disturbances of vision and space perception: insights from posterior cortical atrophy
  • 6 Jun
    2:00 PM
    Daniel Reznik & Roey Schurr
    *Dynamic computational phenotyping of human cognition
  • Date
    Time
    Speaker
    Title
  • 28 Sep
    2:00 PM
    Neguine Rezaii
    *Natural Language Processing Enables a Paradigm Shift in Understanding Aphasia: Introducing the Information Restoration Paradigm
  • 12 Oct
    2:00 PM
    Mohamady El-Gaby
    A cellular basis for mapping behavioural structure
  • 19 Oct
    2:00 PM
    Peter Boasserts
    *Human decision-making under computational complexity
  • 26 Oct
    2:00 PM
    Kenneth Norman
    *Computational principles of real-world memory
  • 2 Nov
    2:00 PM
    Nadia Said
    Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence
  • 16 Nov
    2:00 PM
    Lei Zhang
    *Attenuated flexible behaviour through the lens of reinforcement learning across diagnoses
  • 23 Nov
    2:00 PM
    Paolo Ossola
    *Investigating complex dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in the Cyberball game in Borderline Personality Disorder
  • 30 Nov
    2:00 PM
    Avshalom Caspi
    Mental health across the life course
  • 14 Dec
    2:00 PM
    Angela Radulescu
    Towards naturalistic representation learning in health and disease
  • Date
    Time
    Speaker
    Title
  • 26 Jan
    2:00 PM
    Helen Zhou
    *Brain network phenotype in neuropsychiatric disorders: targeting early stage
  • 9 Feb
    2:00 PM
    Ondrej Zika
    *Trait anxiety is associated with hidden state inference during aversive reversal learning
  • 16 Feb
    2:00 PM
    Evan Russek
    *Measuring intelligent use of cognitive resources in online chess
  • 23 Feb
    4:00 PM
    Payam Piray
    *How does anxiety impair computing uncertainty?
  • 2 Mar
    2:00 PM
    Amitai Shenhav
    *Decomposing the motivation to exert mental effort
  • 9 Mar
    2:00 PM
    Monika Schönauer
    *Imaging memory consolidation in wakefulness and sleep
  • 16 Mar
    2:00 PM
    (1.5 Hrs)
    Neir Eshel & Nicholas Neufeld
    *Behavioural economics of striatal dopamine release / Neurobiological effects of antipsychotic medication in psychotic depression
  • 23 Mar
    2:00 PM
    Alana Jaskir
    *Reward-predictive state abstractions in human reinforcement learning
  • 29 Mar
    2:00 PM
    Paolo Fusar-Poli
    *Artificial intelligence-based screening of Electronic Health Records to detect individuals at risk of psychosis
  • 20 Apr
    2:00 PM
    Roeland Heerema
    *A computational account of how affective states influence economic decisions
  • 27 Apr
    2:00 PM
    Konstantinos Tsetsos
    *Irrational decision-making through inhibitory competition within multiple stages of processing
  • 4 May
    2:00 PM
    Leo Chi Seak
    *Neural mechanism of value-based economic decisions: examples from humans and monkeys
  • 11 May
    2:00 PM
    Anastasia Christakou
    *Towards an explanatory empirical programme in developmental cognitive neuroscience
  • 18 May
    2:00 PM
    Giles Story
    *Self-other representation in borderline personality disorder
  • 1 Jun
    2:00 PM
    Matt Somerville
    *Emotion regulation, emotion beliefs, and adolescent mental health
  • 15 Jun
    2:00 PM
    Vinod Goel
    *Tethered Rationality: A model of behavior for the real world
  • 31 Aug
    12:00 PM
    Peiyuan Zhang
    The dynamic nature of procrastination
  • Date
    Time
    Speaker
    Title
  • 22 Sep
    2:00 PM
    Raphael Köster
    *Behavioural mechanism design using neural network models of human behaviour
  • 29 Sep
    2:00 PM
    Ruth van Holst
    *Confidence biases and self-belief in compulsive disorders
  • 5 Oct
    4:00 PM
    Melissa Sharpe
    *Why and when is dopamine valuable?
  • 13 Oct
    2:00 PM
    Maël Lebreton
    *Affective and motivational biases on confidence judgments
  • 20 Oct
    2:00 PM
    Helen Pushkarskaya
    *Peeling the Onion: What drives neurocognitive difficulties in OCD?
  • 27 Oct
    2:00 PM
    Gonzalo Urcelay
    *Competition and facilitation in human learning
  • 3 Nov
    2:00 PM
    Michael Ewbank
    *Understanding the association between psychotherapy content and clinical outcomes: A deep learning approach
  • 10 Nov
    2:00 PM
    Tor Wager
    *Attribution, belief formation, and self-fulfilling prophecies
  • 17 Nov
    2:00 PM
    Uri Hertz
    *Social learning and advice giving
  • 24 Nov
    2:00 PM
    Michael Anderson
    *Amnesia in healthy people via hippocampal inhibition: A new forgetting mechanism
  • 1 Dec
    2:00 PM
    Robert Whelan
    *Scaling up cognitive neuroscience for improved predictions of real-world behaviour
  • 8 Dec
    2:00 PM
    Eric Schulz
    *Do transformers dream of electric boogeymen?
  • 15 Dec
    2:00 PM
    Isabel Berwian
    Using computational models of learning to develop predictors of response to psychotherapy

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