Date: May 3, 2024
Location: MIT Building 46, Singleton Auditorium (Room 46-3002), 524 Main Street, Cambridge, MA
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. EST with reception to follow
Attendance Options: In-person and livestream
This symposium will explore groundbreaking scientific advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental health disorders. This page will be updated with more information as the event date approaches.
Symposium Schedule
9:00 AM – Welcome, John Gabrieli and Niall Boyce
9:15 AM – John Gabrieli; McGovern Institute and Open Learning, MIT
How Can Science Serve Psychiatry to Enhance Mental Health?
9:45 AM – Niall Boyce, Anum Farid and Tayla McCloud; The Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Mental Health: An introduction to Wellcome’s Mental Health strategy & Funding Remit
11:00 AM – Coffee Break
11:15 AM – Dina Katabi; Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT
Using AI for Measuring the Brain, its Diseases, and Response to Therapies
12:00 PM – Jordan Smoller; Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Precision Psychiatry: Prospects and Challenges
12:45 PM – Lunch Break
1:30 PM – John Krystal; Yale University School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Biological Psychiatry
2:15 PM – Lightning Talks; Moderated by Dost Ongur; Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital
- A. Eden Evins, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Using FNIRS and Machine Learning to Detect Impairment from THC Intoxication at an Individual Level:The Science Underpinning Commercial Applications in Employment and Law Enforcement Settings
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- Christian Webb, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital
- Leveraging Smartphones for the Detection of and Scalable Interventions for Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents
- Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, Northeastern University, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Personalized Network Based Neurofeedback & Neuromodulation in Psychiatric Disorders
- Virginie-Anne Chouinard, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital
- Targets for metabolic interventions: Insulin and energy metabolism in psychotic disorders
- Martha C. Tompson, Boston University
- Engaging Context: Family-Based Treatment for Youth Depression
About the Hosts
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
The mission of the McGovern Institute is to understand the brain and to apply that knowledge to improve human health and well-being. To accomplish these goals, we study the brain at many levels, across multiple disciplines, and we collaborate with academic, clinical, and industry partners around the world to challenge and probe the unknown.The McGovern Institute was established in 2000 by technology entrepreneur Lore Harp McGovern and the late Patrick J. McGovern, former chairman of International Data Group (IDG).
McLean Hospital
Founded in 1811, McLean Hospital is a leader in psychiatric care, research, and education and is the largest psychiatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. Our staff, faculty, volunteers, and supporters are dedicated to improving the lives of individuals and families affected by mental illness.
Open Learning at MIT
The mission of Open Learning is to transform teaching and learning at MIT and around the globe through the innovative use of digital technologies. We fulfill our mission by supporting MIT faculty and students in bold experiments to enhance our residential education; promoting and enabling quantitative, rigorous, inter-disciplinary research on teaching and learning; providing platforms for digital education; sharing research and best practice by convening and partnering with schools, universities, companies, NGOs and governments; and extending MIT’s knowledge to the world.
Poitras Center for Psychiatric Disorders Research at MIT
The Poitras Center for Psychiatric Disorders Research was founded at the McGovern Institute in 2007 through a commitment from Patricia and James Poitras ’63. The goal of the center is to advance human health through brain research by addressing mental disorders that have a devastating impact on patients, their families, and society at large.
Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to using science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. We fund curiosity-driven research and are taking on three of the biggest health challenges facing humanity – climate change, infectious disease, and mental health.Specifically, our Mental Health strategic programme looks to achieve a world in which no one is held back by mental health problems through creating a step change in early intervention for anxiety, depression and psychosis.
We aim to do this by funding research that improves our understanding of how biological, psychological, and social factors interact in the development and resolution of depression, anxiety, and psychosis – including OCD, PTSD, bipolar, and schizophrenia – as well as projects to find new and improved ways to predict, identify and intervene as early as possible. We have a commitment to embed collaboration with Lived Experience experts in the work we do, the work we fund and in the field of mental health science.
Wellcome aims to support a field of mental health science that is collaborative, coherent, and focused – shaped in collaboration with lived experience experts. Our Mental Health field building function supports participation and diverse perspectives within mental health science, fosters working across traditional disciplinary, institutional, and ideological siloes, and identifies collective research priorities that will meaningfully move the field forward. For more information, please visit wellcome.org/what-we-do/mental-health.