Woo-Young Ahn
Sonia Bishop
Michael Breakspear
Jean Daunizeau
Tore Erdmann
Stefan Frässle
Marta Garrido
Jakob Heinzle
Marcus Herdener
Philipp Homan
Sandra Iglesias
Sahib Khalsa
Roland von Känel
Andre Marquand
Christoph Mathys
Gina Paolini
Thomas Parr
Mads Lund Pedersen
Frederike Petzschner
Lionel Rigoux
Helen Schmidt
Philipp Schwartenbeck
Jakob Siemerkus
Klaas Enno Stephan
Lilian Weber
Thomas Wolfers
Yu Yao
This course is designed to provide students across fields (neuroscience, psychiatry, physics, biology, psychology....) with the necessary toolkit to master challenges in computational psychiatry research.
The CPC Zurich is meant to be practically useful for students at all levels (MDs, Master, PhD, Postdoc, PI) coming from diverse backgrounds (neuroscience, psychology, medicine, engineering, physics, etc.), who would like to apply modeling techniques to study learning, decision-making or brain physiology in patients with psychiatric disorders. The course will teach not only the theory of computational modeling, but also demonstrate software in application to example data sets.
We strongly believe in open source and open science, therefore, the content of the course will be made freely accessible on the web.
registration opens soon!
The CPC is divided into two parts: The main course (day 1-5) and in-depth practical tutorials (day 6).
The first day will cover topics in Psychiatry providing a conceptual basis for the type of questions that Computational Psychiatry will need to address.
The second day will explain basic modelling principles (basic mathematical terminology, step-by-step guide on how to build a model, model fitting, model inversion and model selection) and will finish with a first introduction to a possible learning model (Reinforcement Learning).
The third day will include models of perception (Psychophysics, Bayesian Models od Perception, Predicitve Coding) and action selection (Markov Decision Processes, Active Inference, Drift Diffusion Models).
The fourth day (only half a day) will include Machine Learning (basics and advanced) and models of connectivity (Dynamic Causal Modeling and Advanced Models of Connectivity).
The fifth day will feature a series of talks on practical applications of computational models to problems from psychiatry.
| Woo-Yung Anh | Seoul National University, South Korea |
| Sonia Bishop | UC Berkeley, United States |
| Michael Breakspear | QIMR Berghofer, Australia |
| Jean Daunizeau | Brain and Spine Institute, ICM, France |
| Tore Erdmann | Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy |
| Stefan Frässle | University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Marta Garrido | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Jakob Heinzle | University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Marcus Herdener | University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Philipp Homan | Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, United States; Affiliation : University Hospital of Psychiatry, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Sandra Iglesias | University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Sahib Khalsa | Laureate Institute for Brain Research, United States |
| Roland von Känel | University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland |
| Andre Marquand | Donders Institute, Netherlands |
| Christoph Mathys | Scuola Inernazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy |
| Gina Paolini | Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Clienia Schlössli AG Switzerland |
| Thomas Parr | UCL London, UK |
| Mads Lund Pedersen | Brown University, United States |
| Frederike Petzschner | University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Lionel Rigoux | Max Planck Institute Cologne, Germany |
| Helen Schmidt | University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Philipp Schwartenbeck | UCL London, UK |
| Jakob Siemerkus | University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Klaas Enno Stephan | University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Lilian Weber | University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| Thomas Wolfers | Donders Institute, Netherlands |
| Yu Yao | University of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
The Translational Neuromodeling Unit (TNU) has been organizing the Computational Psychiatry Course in Zurich since 2015. All materials from previous courses can be found here.