
Thu 07 Mar 12:30: Psychedelics in psychiatry
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Rayyan Zafar, Imperial College London
- Thursday 07 March 2024, 12:30-13:30
- Venue: Online.
- Series: Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series; organiser: Nikolina Skandali.
Thu 08 Feb 12:30: TBA
Abstract not available
- Speaker: TBA
- Thursday 08 February 2024, 12:30-13:30
- Venue: Online.
- Series: Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series; organiser: Dr Saurabh Sonkusare.
Fri 24 Nov 12:30: TBA
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Dr Rayyan Zafar
- Friday 24 November 2023, 12:30-13:30
- Venue: Online.
- Series: Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series; organiser: Dr Saurabh Sonkusare.
Thu 29 Feb 12:30: Protecting the physical health of people with severe mental illness - what I've learnt from being a carer over the last 30 years
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Prof David Shiers
- Thursday 29 February 2024, 12:30-13:30
- Venue: hybrid .
- Series: Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series; organiser: Dr Saurabh Sonkusare.
Thu 29 Feb 12:30: Protecting the physical health of people with severe mental illness - what I've learnt from being a carer over the last 30 years
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Prof David Shiers
- Thursday 29 February 2024, 12:30-13:30
- Venue: hybrid .
- Series: Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series; organiser: Dr Saurabh Sonkusare.
Thu 22 Feb 12:30: TBA
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Dr Hillary Cass
- Thursday 22 February 2024, 12:30-13:30
- Venue: hybrid .
- Series: Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series; organiser: Dr Saurabh Sonkusare.
Thu 22 Feb 12:30: TBA
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Dr Hillary Cass
- Thursday 22 February 2024, 12:30-13:30
- Venue: hybrid .
- Series: Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series; organiser: Dr Saurabh Sonkusare.
Thu 15 Feb 12:30: autism and genetics
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Dr Jack Underwood
- Thursday 15 February 2024, 12:30-13:30
- Venue: Online.
- Series: Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series; organiser: Dr Saurabh Sonkusare.
Thu 01 Feb 12:30: Diabetes and Eating Disorders
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Prof Khalida Ismail
- Thursday 01 February 2024, 12:30-13:30
- Venue: Online.
- Series: Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series; organiser: Dr Saurabh Sonkusare.
Thu 25 Jan 12:30: Psychotic symptoms in Schizophrenia
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Dr Guillermo Hoga
- Thursday 25 January 2024, 12:30-13:30
- Venue: Online.
- Series: Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series; organiser: Dr Saurabh Sonkusare.
Thu 11 Jan 12:30: Decision making research
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Dr Neil Garrett
- Thursday 11 January 2024, 12:30-13:30
- Venue: Online.
- Series: Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series; organiser: Dr Saurabh Sonkusare.
Tue 28 Nov 09:30: Child Development Forum Michaelmas II
Child Development Forum are a series of talks bringing together researchers of infant, child and adolescent development across the University of Cambridge.
Today’s CDF talks:
Rachel Knight on results from a novel intervention targeting psychological decentering in adolescents with elevated depression symptoms
Jean Heng on the nature and determinants of mutuality across cultures – a UK-Hong Kong study
Dianna Ilyka on taking neuroimaging into the home to examine brain and behaviour associations in neonates
Talks are termly, and usually held at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (Chaucer Road).
Join the mailing list to kept up-to-date, and sign up to give a talk:
https://lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/ucam-childdevforum
This talk is part of the Child Development Forum (CDF) series.
- Speaker: Rachel Knight, Jean Heng, and Dianna Ilyka
- Tuesday 28 November 2023, 09:30-11:00
- Venue: South Pole Large Meeting Room, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.
- Series: Child Development Forum (CDF); organiser: Giacomo.
Wed 06 Dec 12:30: The linguistic foundations of verbal WM
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Prof. Steve Majerus
- Wednesday 06 December 2023, 12:30-13:30
- Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.
- Series: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences - Extra Seminars; organiser: Vicky Collins.
Thu 23 Nov 12:30: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Neuropsychopharmacology
Real-world data suggest very low treatment response rates in clinical routine. The search for treatment personalization tools and potential moderators of clinical outcomes is ongoing. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM), i.e. the quantification of drug concentrations in plasma or serum to titrate the individual dose, is currently the only established personalized medicine tool. Analyzing large TDM datasets acquired as part of clinical practice can help addressing common clinical questions deriving from common clinical scenarios. This type of questions frequently refer to the treatment of particularly vulnerable patient subgroups, where different patterns of drug disposition are expected. For example, the mental healthcare of women in pregnancy or lactation can comprise a challenge for professionals involved including prescription of pharmacological agents. We use different types of data to understand the risk of mental distress in women during pregnancy and at postpartum, while we also focus on exposure of fetuses/newborns to pharmacotherapy prescribed to the mothers during pregnancy and lactation. Moreover, we are interested in understanding moderators of effectiveness and safety outcomes for well-established psychiatric therapies, including electroconvulsive therapy and psychotherapies.
- Speaker: Dr Georgios Schoretsanitis, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Hospital of Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Assistant Professor, The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, NY, USA.
- Thursday 23 November 2023, 12:30-13:30
- Venue: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/6245857987?pwd=WS9QWWxCTXU0ZXFvcUpzU2E2SkRyZz09.
- Series: Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series; organiser: Nikolina Skandali.
Tue 21 Nov 16:00: Capability-oriented Evaluation in AI: From IRT to Measurement Layouts The talk is available online. Please email the organiser and ask for the Teams invite.
With the advent of general-purpose systems in AI, such as large language models, their evaluation is finally transitioning from the reporting of aggregate performance on some benchmarks to the extraction of capabilities in more well-thought measurement experiments, in a way that should resemble the theory and practice of psychological measurement. I will illustrate some examples where Factor Analysis and Item Response Theory have been applied to AI evaluation in the past. In these psychometric approaches, estimating capabilities excels over measuring performance in that capabilities aim to be independent from the task distribution. However, the parameters and factors in these models are still highly dependent on the underlying population of AI systems, which are more arbitrary and changing than human or animal populations. To address this issue, we need a more cognitive, intrinsic approach, identifying task demands and mapping the capabilities that can meet these demands. Under this perspective, I will present a new approach referred to as ‘measurement layouts’, generalised (non-linear) Hierarchical Bayesian Networks that can infer the latent capabilities of a single AI system from observed performance and task demands, and then predict performance for new tasks. Measurement layouts provide understanding of what makes an individual AI system fail and anticipation of performance for future tasks. At the end of the talk, I’ll invite attendees to an open discussion on how measurement layouts compare to other novel approaches such as Assessors (performance models trained on test data) and more traditional approaches such as Structural Equation Modelling (if used for individuals).
The talk is available online. Please email the organiser and ask for the Teams invite.
- Speaker: Prof Jose Hernandez-Orallo
- Tuesday 21 November 2023, 16:00-17:30
- Venue: S3.04, Simon Sainsbury Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School.
- Series: Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars; organiser: Luning Sun.
Fri 03 May 16:30: Neurocognitive ageing within the Lothian Birth Cohorts
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Dr Simon Cox, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh
- Friday 03 May 2024, 16:30-18:00
- Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.
- Series: Zangwill Club; organiser: John Mollon.
Fri 03 May 16:30: Neurocognitive ageing within the Lothian Birth Cohorts
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Dr Simon Cox, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh
- Friday 03 May 2024, 16:30-18:00
- Venue: Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.
- Series: Zangwill Club; organiser: John Mollon.
Thu 30 Nov 12:30: Apathy in Huntingdon's disease
Abstract not available
- Speaker: Akshay Nair, UCL
- Thursday 30 November 2023, 12:30-13:30
- Venue: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/6245857987?pwd=WS9QWWxCTXU0ZXFvcUpzU2E2SkRyZz09..
- Series: Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series; organiser: Nikolina Skandali.
Mon 04 Dec 09:30: Methods In Cognitive Neuroscience Day
The Methods Day will consist of short talks, from researchers around Cambridge, on methodological innovations and new application in brain imaging, brain stimulation, behavioural research and web-based experiments. This year’s Methods Day will take place in-person only. Everybody is welcome. Attendance is free and does not require registration.
The methods day schedule: https://imaging.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/methods/MethodsDaySchedule
- Speaker: Multiple
- Monday 04 December 2023, 09:30-16:15
- Venue: MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.
- Series: CBU Monday Methods Meeting; organiser: Dace Apšvalka.
Tue 21 Nov 16:00: Capability-oriented Evaluation in AI: From IRT to Measurement Layouts
With the advent of general-purpose systems in AI, such as large language models, their evaluation is finally transitioning from the reporting of aggregate performance on some benchmarks to the extraction of capabilities in more well-thought measurement experiments, in a way that should resemble the theory and practice of psychological measurement. I will illustrate some examples where Factor Analysis and Item Response Theory have been applied to AI evaluation in the past. In these psychometric approaches, estimating capabilities excels over measuring performance in that capabilities aim to be independent from the task distribution. However, the parameters and factors in these models are still highly dependent on the underlying population of AI systems, which are more arbitrary and changing than human or animal populations. To address this issue, we need a more cognitive, intrinsic approach, identifying task demands and mapping the capabilities that can meet these demands. Under this perspective, I will present a new approach referred to as ‘measurement layouts’, generalised (non-linear) Hierarchical Bayesian Networks that can infer the latent capabilities of a single AI system from observed performance and task demands, and then predict performance for new tasks. Measurement layouts provide understanding of what makes an individual AI system fail and anticipation of performance for future tasks. At the end of the talk, I’ll invite attendees to an open discussion on how measurement layouts compare to other novel approaches such as Assessors (performance models trained on test data) and more traditional approaches such as Structural Equation Modelling (if used for individuals).
- Speaker: Prof Jose Hernandez-Orallo
- Tuesday 21 November 2023, 16:00-17:30
- Venue: S3.04, Simon Sainsbury Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School.
- Series: Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars; organiser: Luning Sun.