We organise monthly meetings (including half-an-hour long invited talks) at the Turing. Please join our
mailing list for more and updated information.
Date |
Time |
Presenter |
Title of the talk |
15.06.2023 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Keno Juchems |
Predicting diagnoses and improving outcomes with ML for mental health |
15:40 |
Omid Ebrahimi |
Towards precision in the diagnostic profiling of patients: leveraging symptom dynamics in the assessment of major depressive disorder |
16:20 |
|
After talks discussion |
18.05.2023 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Qiang Liu |
Personalised treatment for cognitive impairment in dementia |
15:45 |
|
After talks discussion |
20.04.2023 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Edmond Ho |
Emotion analysis and transfer for facial expressions and body movements |
15:40 |
Gabriela Lunansky |
Intervening on psychopathology networks through simulations |
16:20 |
|
After talks discussion |
16.03.2023 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Sean Kelley |
Using social media data as a novel approach for constructing personalised depression networks |
15:40 |
Gary Brown |
Psychometrics of CBT depression constructs: Potential lessons for data science |
16:20 |
|
After talks discussion |
16.02.2023 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Michael Hoefer |
Designing technology to support co-tracking of mental wellbeing in bipolar disorder |
15:40 |
Christine Parsons and Kirstin Purves |
Different trajectories of depression, anxiety and anhedonia symptoms in the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic in a UK longitudinal sample |
16:20 |
|
After talks discussion |
19.01.2023 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Daniele Bertolini |
Machine learning enables faster clinical trials for Alzheimer's Disease |
15:45 |
Rosamund Powell |
Trustworthy assurance of digital mental health technologies |
16:15 |
|
After talks discussion |
Date |
Time |
Presenter |
Title of the talk |
17.11.2022 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Stefan Rennick-Egglestone |
What can we learn from publicly shared online accounts of mental health recovery? |
15:40 |
Anja Thieme |
Responsible Development of AI Applications for Online CBT Treatment |
16:15 |
|
After talks discussion |
20.10.2022 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Bernadette Stolz |
Topological data analysis of task-based fMRI data from experiments on schizophrenia |
15:40 |
Juan Carlos Díaz-Patiño & Sarael Alcauter Solorzano |
Topological Data Analysis applied to the study of the functional brain connectome: Statistical comparisons using Betti curves |
16:15 |
|
After talks discussion |
15.09.2022 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Francis Szele |
Molecular and Cellular Approaches to Undertstanding Schizophrenia |
15:40 |
Dana Atzil-Slonim |
Revealing Verbal and Non-Verbal Signals of Positive Change in the Treatment of Depression |
16:15 |
|
After talks discussion |
21.07.2022 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Vedant Das Swain |
Semantic gap in predicting mental wellbeing through passive sensing |
15:40 |
Dan Adler |
Are mental health digital biomarkers reliable? |
16:15 |
|
After talks discussion |
16.06.2022 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel |
Towards closed-loop control of affective processes in the brain |
16:00 |
|
After talks discussion |
19.05.2022 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Yuezhou Zhang |
Longitudinal Relationships Between Depressive Symptom Severity and Phone-Measured Mobility |
15:40 |
Marijn ten Thij |
Measuring Distorted Thinking in Written Text |
16:15 |
|
After talks discussion |
21.04.2022 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Lasse Hansen |
A generalizable speech emotion recognition model reveals depression and remission |
15:40 |
Federica Marinaro |
The EDoN initiative: an international and multidisciplinary effort for transforming the early detection of dementia-causing diseases |
16:15 |
|
After talks discussion |
17.03.2022 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Nikos Flemotomos |
Automated quality assessment of cognitive behavioral therapy sessions through highly contextualized language representations |
15:40 |
Carl Yang |
Graph neural networks for connectome-based mental disorder analysis |
16:15 |
|
After talks discussion |
17.02.2022 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Maxime Taquet |
Neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID: from broad to deep phenotyping |
15:40 |
|
After talks discussion |
20.01.2022 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
John Geddes |
2022: Time to accelerate the application of data science to mental health |
15:40 |
|
After talks discussion |
Date |
Time |
Presenter |
Title of the talk |
18.11.2021 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Krishnakant Saboo |
Reinforcement learning based disease progression model for Alzheimer's Disease |
15:40 |
Katie Lewis |
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals with pre-existing psychiatric disorders |
16:15 |
|
After talks discussion |
21.10.2021 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Tayla McCloud |
The mental health of higher education students: a comparison with non-students and an investigation into the role of finances and debt |
15:40 |
Mallory Dobias |
Expanding our reach: Considerations and future directions for improving adolescents’ access to mental health care |
16:20 |
|
After talks discussion |
16.09.2021 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:10 |
Yilin Pan |
Speech- and language-based automatic dementia detection and tracking in a home-based environment |
15:45 |
Kathryn Mansfield and Sinead Langan |
Indirect acute effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on physical and mental health in the UK: a population-based study |
16:20 |
|
After talks discussion |
15.07.2021 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:15 |
Han-Chin Shing |
A prioritization model for suicidality risk assessment |
15:45 |
Stefano Goria |
The challenges of remote multi-modal data collection |
16:15 |
|
After talks discussion |
17.06.2021 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Caroline Nettekoven |
Towards transcribed speech networks as a marker for psychosis risk |
16:00 |
Kimberly Carpenter |
Digital behavioral phenotyping detects atypical patterns of facial expression in toddlers with autism |
16:30 |
|
After talks discussion |
20.05.2021 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:05 |
Lindsay Dewa |
CCopeY: Co-producing with young people to examine youth mental health in the UK during COVID-19
|
15:30 |
Hei Wan (Karen) Mak |
The role of arts and culture in supporting health and wellbeing |
16:00 |
|
After talks discussion |
15.04.2021 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Talayeh Aledavood |
Digital phenotyping for patients with mood disorders |
16:00 |
Vincent Tseng |
Developing interpretable models to predict symptoms of schizophrenia |
16:30 |
|
After talks discussion |
18.03.2021 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Nicole Dalia Cilia |
From handwriting to cognitive impairment diagnosis: a machine learning approach |
16:00 |
Saturnino Luz |
Digital biomarkers for dementia prediction |
16:30 |
|
After talks discussion |
18.02.2021 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Richard Shaw |
Living alone’s, loneliness’s and emotional support’s relationship with death by suicide and hospital
admissions for self-harm: A data linkage study using UK Biobank |
16:00 |
Zhuoqing (George) Chang |
Novel scalable computational methods reveal atypical patterns of gaze in toddlers with autism
spectrum disorder |
16:30 |
|
After talks discussion |
14.01.2021 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Karen Mansfield |
Estimating and tracking prevalence of mental health problems in annually-repeated cross-sectional
survey data from a school population |
16:00 |
Alice Wickersham |
Using linked health and education data to investigate school performance trajectories among children
and adolescents with depression |
16:30 |
|
After talks discussion |
Date |
Time |
Presenter |
Title of the talk |
18.02.2021 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Richard Shaw |
Living alone’s, loneliness’s and emotional support’s relationship with death by suicide and hospital
admissions for self-harm: A data linkage study using UK Biobank |
16:00 |
Zhuoqing (George) Chang |
Novel scalable computational methods reveal atypical patterns of gaze in toddlers with autism
spectrum disorder |
16:30 |
|
After talks discussion |
14.01.2021 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Karen Mansfield |
Estimating and tracking prevalence of mental health problems in annually-repeated cross-sectional
survey data from a school population |
16:00 |
Alice Wickersham |
Using linked health and education data to investigate school performance trajectories among children
and adolescents with depression |
16:30 |
|
After talks discussion |
19.11.2020 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Feifei Bu |
COVID-19 Social Study: Understanding the Psychological & Social Impact of the Pandemic |
16:00 |
Matthias Pierce |
The effect of the pandemic on population mental health: findings from Understanding Society |
16:30 |
|
After talks discussion |
15.10.2020 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Lucia Lushi Chen |
Monitoring Psychological Processes Underpinning Mental Disorders using Social Media Data |
16:00 |
Lucia Valmaggia |
Virtual reality for mental health |
16:30 |
|
After talks discussion |
17.09.2020 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Margarida Madaleno |
Do people adapt to stressors? Evidence from Twitter |
16:00 |
Paris Alexandros Lalousis |
Transdiagnostic Features, Comorbidity and Classification of Recent Onset Psychosis and Depression: a
Multimodal Machine Learning Approach |
16:30 |
|
After talks discussion |
16.07.2020 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Nina Di Cara |
Mood Music: Can we infer wellbeing from Spotify? |
16:00 |
Valentin Tablan |
Natural language processing for mental healthcare |
16:30 |
|
After talks discussion |
18.06.2020 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Sumithra Velupillai |
Extracting psychosis symptom onset information from electronic health records using natural language
processing approaches |
16:00 |
Katharine Smith |
Digital technologies and telepsychiatry: an evidence-based synthesis of current guidance |
16:30 |
|
After talks discussion |
21.05.2020 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Michael Browning |
A computational approach to mood instability |
16:00 |
Roland Zahn |
Predicting clinical outcomes in major depressive disorder |
16:30 |
|
After talks discussion |
16.04.2020 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Aaron Kandola |
Physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and common mental health disorders in the population |
16:00 |
Ann John |
How do my feelings become numbers? |
16:30 |
|
After talks discussion |
19.03.2020 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Vasilisa Skvortsova |
Computational noise at the origin of behavioral variability in healthy brain and disease |
16:00 |
Rafael A. Calvo |
Responsible Health Technology |
16:30 |
|
After talks discussion |
27.02.2020 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Richard Bethlehem |
Typical and Atypical Brain Development: What Is Normal |
16:00 |
Fasih Haider |
Privacy Based Acoustic Data Collection System for Mental Health Monitoring |
16:30 |
|
After talks drinks |
30.01.2020 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Georgia Aitkenhead |
Participatory Science to Empower: Building a Citizen Science Platform |
16:00 |
Julia Ive |
Towards Shareable Data in Clinical Natural Language Processing: Generating Synthetic Electronic
Health Records |
16:30 |
|
After talks drinks |
Date |
Time |
Presenter |
Title of the talk |
19.12.2019 |
15:30 |
|
Introduction |
15:45 |
Paul Moore |
Automatic validation for facial expression synthesis |
16:30 |
|
After talks drinks |
14.11.2019 |
15:15 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Sarah Morgan |
What can MRI brain imaging and patients’ speech tell us about schizophrenia? |
16:30 |
|
After talks drinks |
10.10.2019 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Marzia Scelsi |
The genetics of dementia progression and heterogeneity |
16:00 |
Maxime Taquet |
Seeking markers of mental illness: from microstructure imaging to digital phenotyping |
16:30 |
|
After talks drinks |
19.09.2019 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Neil Oxtoby |
Intro to Data-Driven Disease Progression Modelling |
16:00 |
Alexandra Young |
Data-driven modelling of disease subtypes and their progression |
16:30 |
|
After talks drinks |
11.07.2019 |
15:30 |
|
Introduction |
16:00 |
James Morrill |
Improved extraction of information from physiological time-series data, with application to stress
detection |
|
16:30 |
Ang Li |
Building clinically useful biomarkers in Psychiatry: Is neuroimaging a promising tool? |
|
17:00 |
|
After talks drinks |
20.06.2019 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Liu Shi |
Blood Proteomic Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease |
|
16:00 |
Sara Ahmadi-Abhari |
Forecasting trends in prevalence of dementia and disability in five European countries to 2050 and
estimating the impact of public health interventions: a Markov modelling study |
|
16:30 |
|
After talks drinks |
23.05.2019 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Natasha Clarke |
Digital Discourse as Clinical Data: Investigating Spoken and Written Language in Alzheimer’s Disease
Using Natural Language Processing |
|
16:00 |
Lefkos T. Middleton |
Alzheimer’s disease and other late onset dementias. A world-wide challenge for the 21st century and
beyond |
|
16:30 |
|
After talks drinks |
18.04.2019 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Imanol Pérez Arribas |
A signature-based machine learning model for distinguishing bipolar disorder and borderline
personality disorder |
|
16:00 |
Stephen Friend |
One clinician’s musings on what might be the known unknowns, and unknown unknowns in using wearables
to forecast symptom transitions |
|
16:30 |
|
After talks drinks |
14.03.2019 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
David Llewellyn |
Enhancing the prevention, treatment and diagnosis of dementia with data science and AI |
|
16:00 |
Robert Stewart |
Natural language processing to support research in mental healthcare records – the CRIS
experience |
|
16:30 |
|
After talks drinks |
07.02.2019 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
15:30 |
Francesca Cormack |
Digital technology for mental health research |
|
16:00 |
Tanya Smith |
UK-Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) – Accelerating mental health research using real world
healthcare data |
|
16:30 |
|
After talks drinks |
21.11.2018 |
15:00 |
|
Introduction |
16:30 |
Alejo Nevado-Holgado |
Talk about the MRC Pathfinder project |
|
17:00 |
|
After talk drinks |