Science
The world of medicine has been changing rapidly due to the increasing use of ‘big data.’ And there’s been a major revolution in this approach in neuroscience and psychiatry as well: computing power, sample sizes, neuroimaging technologies, digital approaches to phenotyping, and computational modeling all are already starting to unleash dramatic new understandings of the brain, as well as new approaches to treatment. And so the journal Neuropsychopharmacology recently published a Reviews issue on the topic of Big Data. Kerry Ressler, chief scientific officer at McLean hospital and professor of psychiatry at Harvard medical school, is one of the editors. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.