E14: Computational Psychiatry

Computational psychiatry is a field in its infancy, but it offers potential to change the way mental disorders are diagnosed, treated, and understood. In this episode, we cover the different components of computational psychiatry, compare and contrast it to computational neuroscience, and discuss which of its promises are actually likely to be fulfilled. In particular, we get into: -online games that inform diagnoses, -models of learning mechanisms that can explain disorder, -machine learning techniques that advise treatment plans, -neural circuit mechanisms that can('t) explain disease