The Social Brain: From Models To Mental Health
Professor Xiaosi Gu (Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
online
Hosted by the Neural Dynamics Forum
Given the complex and dynamic nature of our social relationships, the human brain needs to quickly learn and adapt to new social situations. The breakdown of any of these computations could lead to social deficits, as observed in many psychiatric disorders. In this talk, I will present our recent neurocomputational and intracranial work that attempts to model both 1) how humans dynamically adapt beliefs about other people and 2) how individuals can exert influence over social others through model-based forward thinking. Lastly, I will present our findings of how impaired social computations might manifest in different disorders such as addiction, delusion, and autism. Taken together, these findings reveal the dynamic and proactive nature of human interactions as well as the clinical significance of these high-order social processes.
- Meeting ID: 932 7630 6396
- Password: 815933
- https://zoom.us/s/93276306396
Xiaosi Gu from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (https://icahn.mssm.edu/profiles/xiaosi-gu)
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