Determining when a patient is ready for discharge is an open problem, as currently 20% of those hospitalized for psychiatric illness will be hospitalized again within 30 days. To address this issue, we are working to identify behavioral biomarkers for severe mental illness in 400 inpatients hospitalized for psychosis at McLean. The Multisense project is […]
Bryce received his Bachelor’s in psychology from Wesleyan University in 2022 after studying experimental psychopathology using behavioral and electrophysiological methods. Working in two research labs, he helped with data acquisition and analysis for cognitive, judgment and decision-making tasks and auditory oddball tasks using EEG. Now, he is a clinical RA in the Baker Lab working […]
Joshua Salvi, MD, PhD, PGY3, has been selected by the NIMH as the recipient of a 2020 Outstanding Resident Award. Winners of this highly competitive award will participate in a virtual conference with senior NIMH leadership and with national thought leaders in psychiatric research during a virtual conference being held this fall. Research Summary: I […]
Charles Bray ’22 has landed a summer internship within The McLean Mental Health Research Summer Program, which seeks to engage scientific curiosity, create research opportunities, and promote academic success in mental health research for promising young Black, Indigenous, and underrepresented students of color interested in pursuing a career in research or have not yet explored […]
In collaboration with Elizabeth Olson, this project aims to identify the contribution of a specific neural circuit to social withdrawal during the transition to adulthood (ages 16-20) in individuals with a history of interpersonal trauma exposure. Active and passive digital phenotyping metrics will be used to assess social withdrawal over the course of a 12-month […]
Loneliness of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Patients in a Multi-Year mHealth Study is a research study recently published by members in the fNIBI lab. Background Social impairment and isolation are indicators of progression and predictors of relapse in psychiatric disorders. Little research has been done to measure these constructs using digital technologies in this […]
Objectives:This study aimed to (1) determine the feasibility of collecting behavioral data from participants hospitalized with acute psychosis and (2) begin to evaluate the clinical information that can be computationally derived from such data. Methods:Behavioral data was collected across 99 sessions from 38 participantsrecruited from an inpatient psychiatric unit. Each session started with a semi-structured interview […]
Wearable devices are now widely available to collect continuous objective behavioral data from individuals and to measure sleep. Here we introduce a pipeline to infer sleep onset, duration, and quality from raw accelerometer data and then quantify relationships between derived sleep metrics and other variables of interest.For more information:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.02.429455v1.fullThe pipeline released here for the deep […]
In collaboration with Joan Camprodon, the goal of this supplemental project was to capture temporally dense behavioral recordings from individuals receiving ECT and being studied using serial neuroimaging and clinical assessment as part of the parent grant, using smartphones, wearable devices, and audiovisual recordings.