CCN: Schedule
Note: The schedule and linked documents are being updated and subject to changes.
| Week | Commencing | Lectures | Slides | Labs or Assignments | Suggested Reading |
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| 1 | 13-Jan-2025 | 1) Introduction to the course - why a computational approach to psychiatry? 2) Neuroscience and Psychiatry Basics | 1. Introduction slides (updated 13/01/25) 2. Neuroscience basics slides | Lab 0 : Python primer/revision | Neuroscience primer p1-14. Computational Psychiatry: A Primer (MIT Press) (CPP) available at the library or buy online Dayan and Abbott (DA) Chapter 1-2 Watch this video on Marr's three levels of analysis |
| 2 | 20-Jan-2025 |
3) Models of Biological Neurons 4) Models of Networks of Neurons |
| Lab 1: Models of neurons Solutions Lab1 | CPP 2.1 & 2.2 Methods sections for an overview Further readings about models of neurons and networks of neurons DA Chapter 5-(6)-7 Watch this video about Hodgkin and Huxley's experiments |
| 3 | 27-Jan-2025 | 5) Networks Example (1)- Schizophrenia, Attractors and Working memory.
6) Networks Example (2) -Schizophrenia, Attractors and Working memory |
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| Nobel Prize 2024 to Hopfield and Hinton
CPP Chapter 3 DA Chapter 7 |
| 4 | 3-Feb-2025 | no lecture on Monday Feb 3rd
7) Decision Making, optimal decision making and the Drift Diffusion model |
| Lab 2: Hopfield net and application to understanding schizophrenia |
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| 5 | 10-Feb-2025 | 8) Decision Making continued + a brief detour: overview of the visual system 9) Reinforcement learning models |
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| 17-Feb-2025 (Flexible week - no lectures) | No lectures | ||||
| 6 | 24-Feb-2025 | 10) Application: RL models of addiction
11)Applications: RL Models of depression and anxiety |
| CPP Chapter 5 (the value of almost everything) Chapter 9 (Addiction) in textbook | |
| 7 | 3-March-2025 | no lecture on Monday March 3rd
12) Computational modelling of behavioural data | -
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assignment available (deadline March 24th at noon)
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Chapter 7 (Depression) in textbook |
| 8 | 10-March-2025 | 13) Bayesian modelling: the Bayesian brain (1) 14) Bayesian modelling (2) - the Bayesian brai | Chapter 8 (Anxiety) in textbook
Chapter 6 (Psychosis) in textbook | ||
| 9 | 17-March 2025 | no lecture on Monday 17
15) Bayesian modelling (3) - application to comp. psychiatry
| - slides
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| 10 | 24-March 2025 | No lecture on Monday 24th
16) Bayesian modelling cnt (4) |
| 24th - Deadine for Coursework | |
| 11 | 31-March 2025 | no lecture on Monday 31 3 April: Exam revision + Q&A please note different venue: G.02 50 George Square. Please prepare your questions and ideally send to me by email beforehand so I can prepare. | slides |