Wayne State University School of Medicine

Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences 

Chairman's Grand Rounds

Date: Wednesday, Jan. 18. 2023

Time: 1-2pm

Venue: Blue Lecture Hall-Scott Hall 3rd Floor, and Zoom

Speaker:

Vaibhav A. Diwadkar, Ph.D.

Co-Director

Brain Imaging Researh Division

Professor

Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

Wayne State University School of Medicine

Topic:

"Predictive Complexity and Predictive Hierarchies in the Human Brain: A Framework for Studying Function and Dysfunction"

Objectives:

At the end of this presentation, the learner wil be able to:

1.  Describe why predicion is an important functional attribute in brains. 

2.  Explain how brains might solve predictive complexity through functional hierarchies.

3.  Understand how a diverse array of actions in humans results from the human brain's unique ability to achieve predictions across multiple time horizons.

4.  Speculate on why several psychiatric conditions are characterized by an emergent inability in solving predictive complexity.