Capturing and modeling the complex dynamics of psychopathology

Welcome to the Computational Clinical Science Lab at Yale!

Mental disorders are incredibly complex, heterogeneous, and dynamic phenomena that vary within people, between people, and across time. The goal of our research is to develop and harness methods that can capture and model this complexity, with a focus on suicide and other forms of self-harm, including nonsuicidal self-injury and eating disorders. Our work is interdisciplinary by nature. We integrate methods from across the clinical and computational sciences, including machine learning, mathematical modeling, and real-time monitoring (e.g., via smartphones and wearable biosensors).

The Computational Clinical Science Lab is directed by Shirley Wang. We will be based in the Department of Psychology at Yale (opening July 2024).