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SUMMARY:A digital revolution for mental health science - Dr Claire Gillan\
 , Trinity College Dublin 
DTSTART:20210318T123000Z
DTEND:20210318T133000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Muzaffer Kaser
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:* As our understanding of the neurobiological and co
 gnitive correlates of mental health and illness has grown through decades 
 of research\, one thing has become clear: Things are more complicated than
  we might have hoped. Many small effects\, spanning genetic\, biological\,
  psychosocial\, lifestyle\, environmental and psychological levels of anal
 ysis\, conspire to confer individual risk. These factors interact with one
  another in ways we are only beginning to understand and have not yet been
  able to leverage in the clinic – in part due to low power and a prepond
 erance of cross-sectional studies. In this talk\, I’ll describe recent e
 fforts to use Internet-based methods to scale up research in mental health
 \, in particular within-subject\, longitudinal and treatment-related study
  designs. I’ll discuss how this involves a challenging but necessary shi
 ft from clinician-assigned diagnosis towards self-report assessments and s
 hare our experience trialling a range of methods that allow us to follow s
 ignificant numbers of people through time. These include the analysis of a
 rchival twitter data as a proxy for momentary fluctuations in mood\, a ful
 ly internet-based longitudinal treatment prediction study and the developm
 ent of a smartphone app (http://www.neureka.ie) that aims to achieve a rel
 atively deep characterisation of ‘brain health’ in the population at l
 arge. \n\n*Biography:* Dr Gillan gained her PhD at the University of Cambr
 idge in 2013 under the supervision of Trevor Robbins. She is currently an 
 Associate Professor at Trinity Institute of Neurosciences\, Trinity Colleg
 e Dublin. Her lab\, Gillan Lab\, is interested in developing novel approac
 hes to studying brain health in psychiatric and ageing populations - a key
  goal is to develop objective tests that can be used to predict who will r
 espond to which treatment. For detailed biography of Dr Gillan\, please vi
 sit:"https://gillanlab.com/\n
LOCATION: Webinar  (via Zoom online)
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