Computational Psychiatry & Psychology

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Currently funded projects

Project title		Duration		Location
Computer Based Analysis of Psychotherapy Sessions to improve Clinical Practice		01/2021-01/2022		Basel, Switzerland
Using Technology to Facilitate International Research on Diagnosis and Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescence including Low- and Middle-Income Countries - A Strategy based on Direct Clinical Benefit		07/2019-07/2022		Basel, Switzerland Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Pristina, Kosovo Santiago de Chile, Chile

Affiliation

We are affiliated with the Psychiatric University Hospital Basel and the University of Basel. We have received funding from several bodies and partners.

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	Recent publications
*A swarm intelligence machine learning algorithm for test development*	*Silence in Psychotherapy*	*Supervised speaker diarization using Random Forests*
In this study we used the "intelligence" of a swarm of ants to develop a short questionnaire to detect personality disorders in adolescence. Check out our study on Plos One.	Usually, silence is an important thing in psychotherapy. However, in this study we studied the association of silence in psychotherapies of adolescent patients. Find out more about this study below.	Who speaks when? This information is key, when you want to find out about the flow of a conversation, also in psychotherapy. This study by Fürer et al. introduces a methodology to diarize the audio signal for two different speakers.
Steppan / Zimmerann, et al.	Zimmermann, et al.	Fürer, et al.
Plos One	Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment	Frontiers in Psychology