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The state of the field regarding the diagnosis and treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD) is discussed. Current challenges and opportunities facing the research and clinical communities are outlined, including appropriate quantitative and qualitative analyses of the heterogeneity of biological, social, and psychiatric factors which may contribute to MDD.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:29:28

This lesson gives a description of the BrainHealth Databank, a repository of many types of health-related data, whose aim is to accelerate research, improve care, and to help better understand and diagnose mental illness, as well as develop new treatments and prevention strategies. 

 

This lesson corresponds to slides 46-78 of the PDF below. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:12:25
Speaker: : Joanna Yu

This lesson describes not only the need for precision medicine, but also the current state of the methods, pharmacogenetic approaches, utility and implementation of such care today.

 

This lesson corresponds to slides 1-50 of the PowerPoint below. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:24:30
Speaker: : Dan Felsky

This lecture discusses what defines an integrative approach regarding research and methods, including various study designs and models which are appropriate choices when attempting to bridge data domains; a necessity when whole-person modelling. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:28:14
Speaker: : Dan Felsky

This lesson gives an introduction to the Mathematics chapter of Datalabcc's Foundations in Data Science series.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 2:53
Speaker: : Barton Poulson

This lesson serves a primer on elementary algebra.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 3:03
Speaker: : Barton Poulson

This lesson provides a primer on linear algebra, aiming to demonstrate how such operations are fundamental to many data science. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 5:38
Speaker: : Barton Poulson

In this lesson, users will learn about linear equation systems, as well as follow along some practical use cases.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 5:24
Speaker: : Barton Poulson

This talk gives a primer on calculus, emphasizing its role in data science.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 4:17
Speaker: : Barton Poulson

This lesson clarifies how calculus relates to optimization in a data science context. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 8:43
Speaker: : Barton Poulson

This lesson covers Big O notation, a mathematical notation that describes the limiting behavior of a function as it tends towards a certain value or infinity, proving useful for data scientists who want to evaluate their algorithms' efficiency.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 5:19
Speaker: : Barton Poulson

This lesson serves as a primer on the fundamental concepts underlying probability. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 7:33
Speaker: : Barton Poulson

Serving as good refresher, this lesson explains the maths and logic concepts that are important for programmers to understand, including sets, propositional logic, conditional statements, and more.

This compilation is courtesy of freeCodeCamp.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:00:07
Speaker: : Shawn Grooms

This lesson provides a useful refresher which will facilitate the use of Matlab, Octave, and various matrix-manipulation and machine-learning software.

This lesson was created by RootMath.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:21:30
Speaker: :

This lesson is a general overview of overarching concepts in neuroinformatics research, with a particular focus on clinical approaches to defining, measuring, studying, diagnosing, and treating various brain disorders. Also described are the complex, multi-level nature of brain disorders and the data associated with them, from genes and individual cells up to cortical microcircuits and whole-brain network dynamics. Given the heterogeneity of brain disorders and their underlying mechanisms, this lesson lays out a case for multiscale neuroscience data integration.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:09:33
Speaker: : Sean Hill

This tutorial demonstrates how to perform cell-type deconvolution in order to estimate how proportions of cell-types in the brain change in response to various conditions. While these techniques may be useful in addressing a wide range of scientific questions, this tutorial will focus on the cellular changes associated with major depression (MDD). 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:15:14
Speaker: : Keon Arbabi

This lesson explains the fundamental principles of neuronal communication, such as neuronal spiking, membrane potentials, and cellular excitability, and how these electrophysiological features of the brain may be modelled and simulated digitally. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:20:42
Speaker: : Etay Hay

This is an in-depth guide on EEG signals and their interaction within brain microcircuits. Participants are also shown techniques and software for simulating, analyzing, and visualizing these signals.

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:30:41
Speaker: : Frank Mazza

This lesson describes the principles underlying functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), tractography, and parcellation. These tools and concepts are explained in a broader context of neural connectivity and mental health. 

Difficulty level: Intermediate
Duration: 1:47:22

This lecture covers the emergence of cognitive science after the Second World War as an interdisciplinary field for studying the mind, with influences from anthropology, cybernetics, and artificial intelligence.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 51:07