Sean Hill believes the mental health crisis can be improved by harnessing big data. Mental health research, he says, needs to be transformed into a data-driven science. “Right now mental health disorders are defined in terms of symptoms and we want to be defining them based on biological mechanisms,” Hill said. One of the goals of the new research hub is to combine machine learning and data science, and apply it to neuroscience. Another group will build simulations of brain circuits, while another will focus on relating genes to brain anatomy.

Source: thestar June 13, 2019 03:56 UTC