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The Mathematics of Psychiatry | Lawrence Amsel | TEDxHunterCCS

How do the Mathematics of Game Theory and Psychiatry work together? Behavioral Economics has some of the answers. Larry did his undergraduate studies and some graduate work in mathematics, but then switched direction and became a psychiatrist. He has been on the psychiatry faculty of the medical school at Columbia University for over twenty years both as a clinical practitioner and as a researcher. His early research was on suicide prevention which got him very interested in the applications of Decision Science and Game Theory to psychiatry. He organized the first American Psychiatric Association symposium on Game Theory and psychiatry, and has published articles and presented posters on Game Theory modeling of suicide, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Eating Disorders. More recently Larry has been collaborating with the Child Psychiatric Epidemiology Group (CPEG) as Director of Mathematical Psychiatry, creating innovative collaborations involving Decision Science as applied to the psychiatric disorders of children and adolescents. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx