Data Science for Mental Health (DS4MH) @ The Alan Turing Institute


Previous Talks


2024

Date Time Presenter Title
2024.02.15 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Dr. Isabel Berwian
(Princeton University)
Computational models of learning to understand and improve change mechanisms in psychotherapy
15:45 Dr. Josefien Breedvelt
(King’s College London)
Preventing depressive relapse – what works for whom
16:20 After talks discussion
2024.01.18 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Daniela Teodorescu
(LMU Munich)
Language and mental health: measures of emotion dynamics from text as linguistic biosocial markers
15:45 Kailai Yang
(University of Manchester)
MentaLLaMA: Interpretable mental health analysis on social media with large language models
16:20 After talks discussion

2023

Date Time Presenter Title
2023.11.16 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Ali Behrouz
(Cornell University)
Unsupervised and explainable learning of temporal multiplex patterns to detect anomalous brain activity
15:45 Arvind Pillai
(Dartmouth College)
Generalizability in mental health: a spotlight on speech-based suicidal ideation detection
16:20 After talks discussion
2023.10.19 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Prof. Gary Green
(University of York)
Structural and brain activity changes after head injury
15:45 Dr. Josefina Cruzat
(Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)
Temporal irreversibility of large-scale brain dynamics in Alzheimer's disease
16:20 After talks discussion
2023.09.14 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Prof. Seena Fazel
(University of Oxford)
Suicide prediction – recent developments including regression-based compared with machine learning approaches
15:40 After talks discussion
2023.07.20 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Dr. Danilo Moggia
(University of Trier)
Advancing precision psychotherapy: embracing causal inference with continuous-time dynamic modelling
15:45 Dr. Micol Spitale
(University of Cambridge)
Robotic coaches to promote mental well-being in the workplace
16:20 After talks discussion
2023.06.15 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Dr. Keno Juchems
(Limbic AI)
Predicting diagnoses and improving outcomes with ML for mental health
15:40 Dr. Omid Ebrahimi
(University of Oxford)
Towards precision in the diagnostic profiling of patients: leveraging symptom dynamics in the assessment of major depressive disorder
16:20 After talks discussion
2023.05.18 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Dr. Qiang Liu
(University of Oxford)
Personalised treatment for cognitive impairment in dementia
15:45 After talks discussion
2023.04.20 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Dr. Edmond Ho
(University of Glasgow)
Emotion analysis and transfer for facial expressions and body movements
15:40 Dr. Gabriela Lunansky
(University of Amsterdam)
Intervening on psychopathology networks through simulations
16:20 After talks discussion
2023.03.16 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Dr. Sean Kelley
(Trinity College Dublin)
Using social media data as a novel approach for constructing personalised depression networks
15:40 Prof. Gary Brown
(Royal Holloway, University of London)
Psychometrics of CBT depression constructs: Potential lessons for data science
16:20 After talks discussion
2023.02.16 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Michael Hoefer
(University of Colorado Boulder)
Designing technology to support co-tracking of mental wellbeing in bipolar disorder
15:40 Prof. Christine Parsons
(Aarhus University),
Dr. Kirstin Purves
(King's College London)
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
2023.01.19 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Dr. Daniele Bertolini
(Unlearn.AI)
Machine learning enables faster clinical trials for Alzheimer's Disease
15:45 Rosamund Powell
(Alan Turing Institute)
Trustworthy assurance of digital mental health technologies
16:15 After talks discussion

2022

Date Time Presenter Title
2022.11.17 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Dr. Stefan Rennick-Egglestone
(University of Nottingham)
What can we learn from publicly shared online accounts of mental health recovery?
15:40 Dr. Anja Thieme
(Microsoft)
Responsible development of AI applications for online CBT treatment
16:15 After talks discussion
2022.10.20 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Dr. Bernadette Stolz
(EPFL)
Topological data analysis of task-based fMRI data from experiments on schizophrenia
15:40 Dr. Juan Carlos Díaz-Patiño & Dr. Sarael Alcauter Solorzano
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Topological Data Analysis applied to the study of the functional brain connectome: Statistical comparisons using Betti curves
16:15 After talks discussion
2022.09.15 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Prof. Francis Szele
(University of Oxford)
Molecular and cellular approaches to understanding schizophrenia
15:40 Prof. Dana Atzil-Slonim
(Bar-Ilan University)
Revealing verbal and non-verbal signals of positive change in the treatment of depression
16:15 After talks discussion
2022.07.21 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Dr. Vedant Das Swain
(Georgia Institute of Technology)
Semantic gap in predicting mental wellbeing through passive sensing
15:40 Dan Adler
(Cornell University)
Are mental health digital biomarkers reliable?
16:15 After talks discussion
2022.06.16 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Dr. Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel
(University of Montreal)
Towards closed-loop control of affective processes in the brain
16:00 After talks discussion
2022.05.19 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Yuezhou Zhang
(King's College London)
Longitudinal relationships between depressive symptom severity and phone-measured mobility
15:40 Dr. Marijn ten Thij
(Maastricht University)
Measuring distorted thinking in written text
16:15 After talks discussion
2022.04.21 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Lasse Hansen
(Aarhus University)
A generalizable speech emotion recognition model reveals depression and remission
15:40 Dr. Federica Marinaro
(Alzheimer's Research UK)
The EDoN initiative: an international and multidisciplinary effort for transforming the early detection of dementia-causing diseases
16:15 After talks discussion
2022.03.17 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Dr. Nikos Flemotomos
(University of Southern California)
Automated quality assessment of cognitive behavioral therapy sessions through highly contextualized language representations
15:40 Dr. Carl Yang
(Emory University)
Graph neural networks for connectome-based mental disorder analysis
16:15 After talks discussion
2022.02.17 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Dr. Maxime Taquet
(University of Oxford)
Neuropsychiatric sequelae of COVID: from broad to deep phenotyping
15:40 After talks discussion
2022.01.20 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Prof. John Geddes
(University of Oxford)
2022: Time to accelerate the application of data science to mental health
15:40 After talks discussion

2021

Date Time Presenter Title
2021.11.18 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Krishnakant Saboo
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Reinforcement learning based disease progression model for Alzheimer's Disease
15:40 Dr. Katie Lewis
(Cardiff University)
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals with pre-existing psychiatric disorders
16:15 After talks discussion
2021.10.21 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Tayla McCloud
(UCL)
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
(Stony Brook University)
Expanding our reach: Considerations and future directions for improving adolescents’ access to mental health care
16:20 After talks discussion
2021.09.16 15:00 Introduction
15:10 Yilin Pan
(University of Sheffield)
Speech- and language-based automatic dementia detection and tracking in a home-based environment
15:45 Dr. Kathryn Mansfield & Dr. Sinead Langan
(The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
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
2021.07.15 15:00 Introduction
15:15 Han-Chin Shing
(University of Maryland)
A prioritization model for suicidality risk assessment
15:45 Dr. Stefano Goria
(Thymia)
The challenges of remote multi-modal data collection
16:15 After talks discussion
2021.06.17 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Dr. Caroline Nettekoven
(University of Cambridge)
Towards transcribed speech networks as a marker for psychosis risk
16:00 Dr. Kimberly Carpenter
(Duke University)
Digital behavioral phenotyping detects atypical patterns of facial expression in toddlers with autism
16:30 After talks discussion
2021.05.20 15:00 Introduction
15:05 Dr. Lindsay Dewa
(Imperial College London)
CCopeY: Co-producing with young people to examine youth mental health in the UK during COVID-19
15:30 Dr. Hei Wan (Karen) Mak
(UCL)
The role of arts and culture in supporting health and wellbeing
16:00 After talks discussion
2021.04.15 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Dr. Talayeh Aledavood
(Aalto University)
Digital phenotyping for patients with mood disorders
16:00 Dr. Vincent Tseng
(Verily)
Developing interpretable models to predict symptoms of schizophrenia
16:30 After talks discussion
2021.03.18 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Dr. Nicole Dalia Cilia
(University of Cassino and Southern Lazio)
From handwriting to cognitive impairment diagnosis: a machine learning approach
16:00 Dr. Saturnino Luz
(University of Edinburgh)
Digital biomarkers for dementia prediction
16:30 After talks discussion
2021.02.18 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Dr. Richard Shaw
(University of Glasgow)
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 Dr. Zhuoqing (George) Chang
(Duke University)
Novel scalable computational methods reveal atypical patterns of gaze in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder
16:30 After talks discussion
2021.01.14 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Dr. Karen Mansfield
(University of Oxford)
Estimating and tracking prevalence of mental health problems in annually-repeated cross-sectional survey data from a school population
16:00 Dr. Alice Wickersham
(King's College London)
Using linked health and education data to investigate school performance trajectories among children and adolescents with depression
16:30 After talks discussion

2020

Date Time Presenter Title
2020.11.19 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Dr. Feifei Bu
(UCL)
COVID-19 social study: Understanding the psychological & social impact of the pandemic
16:00 Dr. Matthias Pierce
(University of Manchester)
The effect of the pandemic on population mental health: findings from Understanding Society
16:30 After talks discussion
2020.10.15 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Lucia Lushi Chen
(University of Edinburgh)
Monitoring psychological processes underpinning mental disorders using social media data
16:00 Dr. Lucia Valmaggia
(King's College London)
Virtual reality for mental health
16:30 After talks discussion
2020.09.17 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Dr. Margarida Madaleno
(LSE)
Do people adapt to stressors? Evidence from Twitter
16:00 Dr. Paris Alexandros Lalousis
(University of Birmingham)
Transdiagnostic Features, Comorbidity and Classification of Recent Onset Psychosis and Depression: a Multimodal Machine Learning Approach
16:30 After talks discussion
2020.07.16 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Nina Di Cara
(University of Bristol)
Mood Music: Can we infer wellbeing from Spotify?
16:00 Dr. Valentin Tablan
(Ieso Digital Health)
Natural language processing for mental healthcare
16:30 After talks discussion
2020.06.18 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Dr. Sumithra Velupillai
(King's College London)
Extracting psychosis symptom onset information from electronic health records using natural language processing approaches
16:00 Dr. Katharine Smith
(University of Oxford)
Digital technologies and telepsychiatry: an evidence-based synthesis of current guidance
16:30 After talks discussion
2020.05.21 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Dr. Michael Browning
(University of Oxford)
A computational approach to mood instability
16:00 Dr. Roland Zahn
(King's College London)
Predicting clinical outcomes in major depressive disorder
16:30 After talks discussion
2020.04.16 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Aaron Kandola
(UCL)
Physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and common mental health disorders in the population
16:00 Prof. Ann John
(Swansea University)
How do my feelings become numbers?
16:30 After talks discussion
2020.03.19 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Dr. Vasilisa Skvortsova
(Max Planck UCL Centre)
Computational noise at the origin of behavioral variability in healthy brain and disease
16:00 Prof. Rafael A. Calvo
(Imperial College London)
Responsible Health Technology
16:30 After talks discussion
2020.02.27 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Dr. Richard Bethlehem
(University of Cambridge)
Typical and Atypical Brain Development: What Is Normal
16:00 Dr. Fasih Haider
(University of Edinburgh)
Privacy Based Acoustic Data Collection System for Mental Health Monitoring
16:30 After talks discussion
2020.01.30 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Georgia Aitkenhead
(Alan Turing Institute)
Participatory Science to Empower: Building a Citizen Science Platform
16:00 Dr. Julia Ive
(Imperial College London)
Towards Shareable Data in Clinical Natural Language Processing: Generating Synthetic Electronic Health Records
16:30 After talks discussion

2018-2019

Date Time Presenter Title
2019.12.19 15:30 Introduction
15:45 Dr. Paul Moore
(University of Oxford)
Automatic validation for facial expression synthesis
16:30 After talks discussion
2019.11.14 15:15 Introduction
15:30 Dr. Sarah Morgan
(University of Cambridge)
What can MRI brain imaging and patients’ speech tell us about schizophrenia?
16:30 After talks discussion
2019.10.10 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Marzia Scelsi
(UCL)
The genetics of dementia progression and heterogeneity
16:00 Dr. Maxime Taquet
(University of Oxford)
Seeking markers of mental illness: from microstructure imaging to digital phenotyping
16:30 After talks discussion
2019.09.19 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Dr. Neil Oxtoby
(UCL)
Intro to Data-Driven Disease Progression Modelling
16:00 Dr. Alexandra Young
(UCL)
Data-driven modelling of disease subtypes and their progression
16:30 After talks discussion
2019.07.11 15:30 Introduction
16:00 James Morrill
(University of Oxford)
Improved extraction of information from physiological time-series data, with application to stress detection
16:30 Ang Li
(Alan Turing Institute)
Building clinically useful biomarkers in Psychiatry: Is neuroimaging a promising tool?
17:00 After talks discussion
2019.06.20 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Dr. Liu Shi
(University of Oxford)
Blood Proteomic Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease
16:00 Dr. Sara Ahmadi-Abhari
(Imperial College London)
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 discussion
2019.05.23 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Natasha Clarke
(St George's, University of London)
Digital Discourse as Clinical Data: Investigating Spoken and Written Language in Alzheimer’s Disease Using Natural Language Processing
16:00 Prof. Lefkos T. Middleton
(Imperial College London)
Alzheimer’s disease and other late onset dementias. A world-wide challenge for the 21st century and beyond
16:30 After talks discussion
2019.04.18 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Imanol Pérez Arribas
(University of Oxford)
A signature-based machine learning model for distinguishing bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder
16:00 Prof. Stephen Friend
(University of Oxford, 4YouandMe)
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 discussion
2019.03.14 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Prof. David Llewellyn
(University of Exeter)
Enhancing the prevention, treatment and diagnosis of dementia with data science and AI
16:00 Prof. Robert Stewart
(King's College London)
Natural language processing to support research in mental healthcare records – the CRIS experience
16:30 After talks discussion
2019.02.07 15:00 Introduction
15:30 Dr. Francesca Cormack
(Cambridge Cognition)
Digital technology for mental health research
16:00 Dr. Tanya Smith
(University of Oxford)
UK-Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS) – Accelerating mental health research using real world healthcare data
16:30 After talks discussion
2018.11.21 15:00 Introduction
16:30 Dr. Alejo Nevado-Holgado
(University of Oxford)
Talk about the MRC Pathfinder project
17:00 After talks discussion