ABOUT THE CPC


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.

COURSE REGISTRATION

registration opens soon!

COURSE STRUCTURE

The CPC is divided into two parts: The main course (day 1-5) and in-depth practical tutorials (day 6).


MAIN COURSE

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.





SPEAKERS 2020
 
Woo-Yung AnhSeoul National University, South Korea
Sonia BishopUC Berkeley, United States
Michael BreakspearQIMR Berghofer, Australia
Jean DaunizeauBrain and Spine Institute, ICM, France
Tore ErdmannScuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy
Stefan FrässleUniversity of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Marta GarridoUniversity of Melbourne, Australia
Jakob HeinzleUniversity of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Marcus HerdenerUniversity of Zurich, Switzerland
Philipp Homan Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, United States; Affiliation : University Hospital of Psychiatry, Zurich, Switzerland
Sandra IglesiasUniversity of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Sahib Khalsa Laureate Institute for Brain Research, United States
Roland von KänelUniversity Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Andre MarquandDonders Institute, Netherlands
Christoph MathysScuola Inernazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy
Gina PaoliniKlinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Clienia Schlössli AG Switzerland
Thomas ParrUCL London, UK
Mads Lund PedersenBrown University, United States
Frederike PetzschnerUniversity of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Lionel RigouxMax Planck Institute Cologne, Germany
Helen SchmidtUniversity of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Philipp SchwartenbeckUCL London, UK
Jakob SiemerkusUniversity of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Klaas Enno StephanUniversity of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Lilian WeberUniversity of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Thomas WolfersDonders Institute, Netherlands
Yu YaoUniversity of Zurich & ETH Zurich, Switzerland
COURSE MATERIAL
PAST COURSES

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.

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CPC TEAM
Dr. Frederike Petzschner

Organizer

Prof. Klaas Enno Stephan

Organizer

 
Katharina V. Wellstein

Organizer

Nicole Jessica Zahnd

Contact Person

 
Heidi Brunner

Administration

Inês Pereira

Contact Person