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Mini-Symposium - Computational Psychiatry: Multiscale Models of Mental Illness

Date

November 12, 2017

Location

Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C.

Sponsor(s): National Institute of Mental Health

On November 12, 2017, NIMH hosted a mini-symposium to introduce new and burgeoning field of computational psychiatry. Computational psychiatry applies cutting-edge quantitative methods and theoretical models to investigate neural or cognitive phenomena relevant to psychiatric diseases. Presentations covered practical examples of theory- and data-driven computational models of cognitive deficits associated with schizophrenia, emotion regulation, anxiety, and drug addiction.