The Mathematics of Psychiatry | Lawrence Amsel | TEDxHunterCCS

How do the Mathematics of Game Theory and Psychiatry work together? Behavioral Economics has some of the answers.
Larry did his undergraduate studies and some graduate work in mathematics, but then switched direction and became a psychiatrist. He has been on the psychiatry faculty of the medical school at Columbia University for over twenty years both as a clinical practitioner and as a researcher. His early research was on suicide prevention which got him very interested in the applications of Decision Science and Game Theory to psychiatry. He organized the first American Psychiatric Association symposium on Game Theory and psychiatry, and has published articles and presented posters on Game Theory modeling of suicide, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Eating Disorders. More recently Larry has been collaborating with the Child Psychiatric Epidemiology Group (CPEG) as Director of Mathematical Psychiatry, creating innovative collaborations involving Decision Science as applied to the psychiatric disorders of children and adolescents.
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[@sounakmahanti6640]

One of the greatest speech in tedx

[@flexibartr]

So few comments. So few views after years. What's wrong? This is really interesting stuff. There is much to develop in it.

[@mohamadkhanafer2630]

The things is what he’s talking about is psychiatry, and the only thing he’s doing is giving the events names and mathematical description such as delta. And then he continues the conversation about psychiatry using the mathematical codes, so there’s nothing mathematical here.

[@stt9379]

I rational reason memories fade.but give me something tangible.

[@stt9379]

what foods are there?

[@stt9379]

memories stay in healthy people.

[@joramarentved4980]

P.S.: Perfect doesn't depend on stubborn!

[@Eric-tj3tg]

Useless in addressing the underlying trauma of Anorexia. Could have used addicts to substances or processes and, in the end, is this formula supposed to, in any way, allow for another choice? If you're wounded and in pain, the choice to not be, is not one. I had hoped you were going to talk about the use of math in pharmacological studies (very important), in psychological testing, in experimental methods, in diagnostic criteria, etc. I think that by now, we know that a whacked out nervous system (having been dysregulated early, often and extremely) is underlying most psychiatric disturbances.

[@flexibartr]

Isn' t psychoanalysis already another way to look for the rationality of mental illness? How different is it?

[@geraldpeck7602]

"I'm hi.."....great intro I am high too

[@NITROUSOXIDE921]

Those were...the ugliest powerpoint slides that I have ever seen or will see in my entire lifespan. Thank you for introducing me to this, Ted Talks.

[@stt9379]

why remembering the numbers requires patience psychiatrist need to realize that mathematicians are capable of healing the dyscalclau linguistiese been help dyslexic or hyperlexic ?

[@0HolyFudge0]

I have came to notice your comments on various TH-cam videos.
There's a hint of schizophasia in your speech pattern.
Do you, by any chance, have schizophrenia?

[@bobbobson5078]

psychiatric drugs destroy lives. while you people continue with life, with career, with family, many victims are left behind whose life could never be the same.

[@laurenj432]

bob bobson I agree that some medications are harmful especially when forced upon patients, but I think some can make a positive difference. I’m a teenager so maybe I’m not one to talk, but I think things like anti-depressants can really make a big difference in the quality of someone’s life. Over medication is still an issue though, especially when it comes to treating difficult patients in psych wards😔

[@karencohalan9291]

Really? A dieter is directly comparable to an anorexic? An anorexic has a logical, quantifiable, rational process for deciding whether to eat a piece of cake in a given moment? Oh heaven help us... A psychiatrist?? Instead of bringing mathematics into it - could we instead encourage psychiatrists to bring an understanding of the social, economic and familial circumstances into their thought process.....please?