Xuehu Wei is a Postdoctoral Research fellow in the Functional Neuroimaging and Bioinformatics Lab at McLean Hospital. She received her PhD from Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany. She focuses on studying the neural mechanisms of language processing and neuroplasticity in the human brain using multimodal neuroimaging methods. She is […]
Bryce Gillis presents poster ‘Leveraging ecological assessments to derive robust predictors of mania, psychosis, and depression’ at the 2023 Technology in Psychiatry Summit (TIPS) Annual Meeting in Tampa, FL. See abstract below:Background: The core symptoms of psychotic and affective illnesses are important, yet challenging to measure, indicators of disease severity and progression. In our longitudinal study, […]
Naturalistic paradigms hold enormous potential for studying abnormal brain function. However, the development of clinical applications based on naturalistic approaches is still in its infancy. Our symposium at OHBM 2023 presented the challenges and recent advances in research directed at clinical translation of naturalistic paradigms for brain mapping. See here if you are interested in […]
Justin Baker gives a keynote lecture on Sensing Psychosis: Deep Phenotyping of Neuropsychiatric Disorders at the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) 2023 conference. Traditional psychiatric care relies on subjective assessments, hindering progress in personalized treatments. However, pervasive computing offers unprecedented opportunities to develop dynamic models of mental illness by quantifying individual behavior over time and […]
Louis-Philippe Morency gives a keynote lecture on What is Multimodal? at the Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) 2023 conference.Our experience of the world is multimodal – we see objects, hear sounds, feel texture, smell odors, and taste flavors. In recent years, a broad and impactful body of research emerged in artificial intelligence under the […]
In this paper, we describe the design, collection, and validation of a new video database that includes holistic and dynamic emotion ratings from 83 participants watching 22 affective movie clips. In contrast to previous work in Affective Computing, which pursued a single “ground truth” label for the affective content of each moment of each video […]
A.J. Pandina graduated from Tufts University in 2022 with a degree in Biopsychology along the pre-medical track. At Tufts, he worked to assess the influence of caffeine on problem-solving and taught English at the local center for adult Spanish-speaking refugees. Now, as a Clinical Research Assistant in both the Neurobiology of Fear Lab and Baker […]
Assessing sleep and activity is critical within inpatient psychiatry. In our pursuit to enhance the accuracy and depth of available sleep and activity data for clinicians, we have developed a system to extract and display measurements related to sleep and activity from patients who are receiving treatment in the hospital. Our primary goal is to […]
DynAMos: “The Dynamic Affective Movie Clip Database for Subjectivity Analysis” is a new video database that includes holistic and dynamic emotion ratings from over 100 participants watching 22 affective movie clips. Recognizing the subjectivity inherent to emotional experiences, we provide in the database the full distribution of all participants’ ratings. We argue that this choice represents […]
This is a neuroimaging study conducted at McLean Hospital which is focused on studying changes in functional brain network architecture in patients with OCD over the course of intensive, residential treatment. The goal of this project is to study changes in brain networks and harm avoidance behavior that track with OCD-related symptoms and illness behavior […]