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SUMMARY:Precision neuroimaging\, neuropeptides and AI: decoding and regula
 ting human emotion - Professor Ben Becker\, University of Hong Kong
DTSTART:20251030T123000Z
DTEND:20251030T133000Z
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CONTACT:Oliver Knight
DESCRIPTION:Emotional and motivational processes are vital for everyday fu
 nctioning and mental health. Dysregulation in these domains critically imp
 ede adaptive behavior and represent a transdiagnostic feature across major
  mental and neurological disorders. A significant proportion of individual
 s experiencing pathological dysregulation do not respond adequately to cur
 rently available interventions. Therefore\, integrated translational strat
 egies that precisely identify the underlying brain systems and explore nov
 el strategies to modulate these targets in humans are urgently needed. In 
 this talk\, I will outline synergistic strategies aimed at (1) determining
  the neural basis of highly subjective\, conscious emotional experiences u
 sing machine learning–based neural decoding of advanced and naturalistic
  fMRI experiments\, (2) demonstrating how these neural signatures differ f
 rom those underlying hard-wired autonomic affective responses\, and (3) ex
 ploring how these domains can be precisely regulated via neuropeptide syst
 ems (such as oxytocin and angiotensin II) and novel technologies\, includi
 ng conversational AI.
LOCATION:Online via zoom
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