TORONTO — 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. “That’s the Holy Grail of where we want to go.”And that’s what the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, officially opened Thursday at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, promises to do. Another group will build simulations of brain circuits, while another will focus on relating genes to brain anatomy.

Source: National Post June 13, 2019 03:56 UTC