Using computer algorithms to understand why mental illnesses emerge

In this Q&A, we speak to Tobias Hauser, head of the Developmental Computational Psychiatry lab at the University of Tübingen and the Max Planck University College London Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research , and awardee of this year’s FENS-EJN Young Investigator Prize. His research aims to better understand the neurocomputational mechanisms that underlie learning and decision-making and especially their role in the development of psychiatric disorders.