Forwarding on behalf of the team at the TNU in Zurich. [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/88baa34a20b71f6c68e5a0adc/images/b91f568d-436f-477a-8851-5286aca6938d.png] It is our pleasure to announce the 4th international Computational Psychiatry Course organized by the Translational Neuromodeling Unit<http://www.tnu.ethz.ch/> (TNU) at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. The CPC2018 will take place from 10-14 September 2018 in Zurich. Register here<https://ticketfrog.ch/en/p/kurse-seminare/berufliche-bildung/computational-psychiatry-course-2018-1518612351877001766.html> ABOUT This course is designed to provide students across fields (neuroscience, psychiatry, physics, biology, psychology....) with the necessary toolkit to master challenges in computational psychiatry research. The CPC is meant to be practically useful for students at all levels (MDs, Master, PhD, Postdoc, PI) coming from diverse backgrounds (neuroscience, psychology, medicine, engineering, physics, etc.), who would like to apply modeling techniques to study learning, decision-making or brain physiology in patients with psychiatric disorders. The course will teach not only the theory of computational modeling, but also demonstrate software in application to example data sets. We strongly believe in open source and open science, therefore, the content of the course will be made freely accessible on the web. You can find detailed information on our website<http://www.translationalneuromodeling.org/cpcourse/> or follow us on twitter <https://twitter.com/CompPsychiatry> or facebook<https://www.facebook.com/groups/1481318692163550/>. STRUCTURE The course will consist of five parts: The first day covers topics in Clinical Psychiatry providing a conceptual basis for the type of questions that Computational Psychiatry will need to address, including an open panel discussions led by scientists with a clinical background in Psychiatry. The second day explains basic modelling principles, Bayesian Inference (Bayesian Models of Perception, Bayesian Hierarchical Learning, Predictive Coding), Machine Learning & the Drift-Diffusion Model The third day includes models of planning and decision making (MDPs, POMDPs, Reinforcement Learning, Active Inference), Biophysical Models (DCMs) and more advanced model inversion techniques (model selection, model averaging, MCMC, Variational Bayes) The fourth day features a series of talks by leading scientists on the applications of Computational Psychiatry, including a panel discussion on the future of Computational Psychiatry. The fifth day is optional and includes hands-on practical programming sessions for a subset of the presented models (IMPORTANT NOTICE: Seats for the practical sessions need to be booked separately and are limited!!!) * Practical Session A: Bayesian Learning using the Hierarchical Gaussian Filter<https://www.tnu.ethz.ch/de/software/tapas.html> * Practical Session B: Active inference using the Active Inference Toolbox<http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/> * Practical Session C: Model Inversion using the Variational Bayes Toolbox<https://mbb-team.github.io/VBA-toolbox/> * Practical Session D: Reinforcement Learning using the hBayesDM Package<https://ccs-lab.github.io/code/> SPEAKERS David Redish, University of Minnesota, USA Read Montague, Virginia Tech, USA Rick Adams, UCL, London Hanneke den Ouden, Radboud University, Netherlands Klaas Enno Stephan, University of Zurich & ETH, Zurich Valerie Voon, Cambridge, Marcus Herdener, UZH, Zurich Andre Marquand, Donders, Nijmegen Dominik Bach, University of Zurich, Zurich Martin Paulus, Laureate Institute, Tulsa, USA Helene Haker, University of Zurich & ETH, Zurich Frederike Petzschner, University of Zurich & ETH, Zurich Stephen Fleming, UCL, London Lilian Weber, University of Zurich & ETH, Zurich Christoph Mathys, SISSA, Trieste Rafael Polania, ETH, Zurich Lionel Rigoux, MPI, Cologne Woo-Young Ahn, Seoul National University Philipp Schwartenbeck, UCL & Oxford University Jakob Heinzle, University of Zurich & ETH, Zurich Dario Schöbi, University of Zurich & ETH, Zurich Andreea Diaconescu, University of Basel, Basel Adam Checkroud, Spring Health, New York Jean Daunizeau, Brain and Spine Institute, ICM, Paris Tore Erdmann, SISSA, Trieste Stefan Frässle, University of Zurich & ETH, Zurich ... and more ORGANIZERS [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/88baa34a20b71f6c68e5a0adc/images/6df83000-5061-468f-a447-2b8182cf7865.png] Translational Neuromodeling Unit<https://www.tnu.ethz.ch/en/home.html> University & ETH Zurich Klaas Enno Stephan<https://www.tnu.ethz.ch/en/team/faculty-and-scientific-staff/stephan.html> Frederike Petzschner<https://www.tnu.ethz.ch/en/team/faculty-and-scientific-staff/petzschner.html> Administration: Heidi Brunner<https://www.tnu.ethz.ch/en/team/admin/heidi-brunner.html> Contact: Nicole Zahnd<mailto:[log in to unmask]> & Gina Paolini<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/88baa34a20b71f6c68e5a0adc/_compresseds/c547a61f-5da0-42c9-a49d-bbf96909d9b2.jpg] [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/88baa34a20b71f6c68e5a0adc/_compresseds/8d237ca0-e414-49d6-97e8-adba70fa7432.jpg] [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/88baa34a20b71f6c68e5a0adc/images/e23a665f-acd4-4b47-bbc9-a8d23f641533.jpg] [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/88baa34a20b71f6c68e5a0adc/images/f1fe6197-5f93-4a2e-9c45-78c9c96fcddf.jpg] [https://gallery.mailchimp.com/88baa34a20b71f6c68e5a0adc/images/86238fb7-372f-44a1-b728-b48dcb624953.jpg]