Cognitive Network Modeling for Suicide Prevention

Please join us for a Special Guest Lecture on August 1, 2024 by Andreea Diaconescu, PhD. Dr. Diaconescu is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto where she is a scientist at the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. She is also a member of the Max Planck-University of Toronto Centre for Neural Science and Technology

Prior to joining the University of Toronto faculty, Dr.  Diaconescu was a Swiss National Foundation Ambizione fellow and junior group leader at the University in Basel, Department of Psychiatry where she led a project on early detection and treatment of psychosis using mathematical modelling. After completing her PhD in cognitive neuroscience at the Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto, Dr. Diaconescu held a postdoctoral position at the Translational Neuromodeling Unit, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. There, she developed and applied (neuro)computational models of learning and decision-making to understand the emergence and persistence of delusions in psychoaffective disorders such as schizophrenia.

Dr. Diaconescu has developed and validated mathematical models that infer subject-specific disturbances of information processing in neuronal circuits from neuroimaging, electrophysiological, and behaviour measures. She also has expertise in whole-brain, multimodal neuroimaging analysis methods. Dr. Diaconescu's research is centered on the clinical validation of (neuro)computational models of learning and decision-making for predicting psychosocial functioning and treatment response in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis. Moreover, Dr. Diaconescu is engaged in the identification of cognition- and neuroimaging-based transdiagnostic predictors of suicidality.

This lecture is being offered as a hybrid event. Join us in-person in the UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital Auditorium or to attend remotely using the Zoom information below:

Zoom Link:  https://pitt.zoom.us/j/97213356323
Passcode: 772474

For More Information. Please contact Laura Taglioni at taglionil@upmc.edu.