Dr. Xiaosi Gu

Guest speaker: Dr. Xiaosi Gu, Professor of Psychiatry and Biomedical Informatics & Data Science, and Director of the Computational Psychiatry Unit at Yale School of Medicine.

Ecological computation as a bridge between cells, circuits, and therapeutics

Computational approaches continue to gain momentum across basic and translational neuroscience; yet the oversimplification in many existing paradigms and models may limit their ecological validity and ultimately, clinical relevance. In this talk, I will use the emerging field of computational social neuroscience as an example to demonstrate how ecologically grounded paradigms and models may help us link neural mechanisms across molecules, cells, and circuits in living humans, eventually informing and improving interventions and treatments of neuropsychiatric disorders.