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.