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The Applied Computational Psychiatry lab focuses on developing computational tools with real potential for clinical applications.

Computational Psychiatry is a multidisciplinary field of research at the intersection of psychiatry, neuroscience, machine learning and statistics. The aim of the field is to harness advances in these fields to advance treatments for mental illnesses. For overviews over computational psychiatry, see Huys et al., 2016 Nature Neuroscience and Huys et al. 2020 Neuropsychopharmacology

When an organ is unable to meet the demands placed on it, illness can arise. As the main functions of the brain are to compute and learn, an understanding of mental illnesses will benefit from an understanding of the computational and learning functions the brain performs, and how these are affected in states of ill-health.

Latest Publications

Cheng, Annie; Konova, Anna; Powers, Albert; Corlett, Philip; Levy, Ifat; Gu, Xiaosi; Huys, Quentin; Pushkarskya, Helen; Fineberg, Sarah; Hauser, Tobias; Bzdok, Danilo; Harpaz-Rotem, Ilan; Babuscio, Theresa; Nichols, Lisa; Zhao, Yize; Sharma, Manu; Meeker, Daniella; Xu, Hua; Rutledge, Robb B.; Pearlson, Godfrey D.; Pittenger, Christopher; Yip, Sarah W.

Threading the needle: Practical considerations for merging theory-driven computational psychiatry with data-driven analytics to enhance precision health at scale. Journal Article

In: Biological Psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging, 2026, ISSN: 2451-9030.

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Fielder, Jennifer C.; Shi, Jinyu; McGlade, Daniel; Huys, Quentin J. M.; Steinbeis, Nikolaus

Sense of control buffers against stress. Journal Article

In: eLife, vol. 14, 2026, ISSN: 2050-084X.

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Laszewska, Agata; Helter, Timea; Baldwin, Ashley; Cleare, Anthony J.; Cowen, Philip J.; Evans, Jonathan; Huys, Quentin J. M.; Kurkar, Micheal; Lewis, Alexander C.; Nixon, Neil; Rastogi, Abhinav; Watson, Stuart; Geddes, John R.; Browning, Michael; Simon, Judit

Cost-effectiveness of pramipexole augmentation for acute phase and maintenance therapy of treatment-resistant depression compared to placebo augmentation: economic evaluation of the PAX-D randomised controlled trial. Journal Article

In: The Lancet Regional Health. Europe, vol. 61, pp. 101533, 2026, ISSN: 2666-7762.

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Elad, Doron; Story, Giles W.; Berwian, Isabel M.; Stephan, Klaas E.; Walter, Henrik; Huys, Quentin J. M.

Delay discounting correlates with depression but does not predict relapse after antidepressant discontinuation Journal Article

In: Molecular Psychiatry, 2026, ISSN: 1476-5578.

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Leong, Ian Lam; Ng, Tsz Huen; Sen, Kunal; Burchill, Ella; Costello, Harry; Badenoch, James B.; Coebergh, Jan; McCutcheon, Robert A.; Nair, Akshay; Browning, Michael; Huys, Quentin J. M.; Lewis, Glyn; Lees, Andrew; David, Anthony S.; Rogers, Jonathan P.

Reduced striatal dopamine transmission as a transdiagnostic substrate of psychomotor retardation. Journal Article

In: Brain, 2025, ISSN: 1460-2156.

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Latest Preprints

Onysk, Jakub; Chen, Jiazhou; Huys, Quentin JM

On the computational nature of emotions: insights from metareasoning and transformers Journal Article

In: psyArxiv, 2026.

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Serfaty, Jade; Huys, Quentin J. M.

Subjective emotion judgements adhere to principles of Bayesian inference and efficient representation Journal Article

In: psyArxiv, 2026.

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Kim, Taekwan; Viding, Essi; Huys, Quentin J M

Reliable detection of longitudinal change incomputational models Journal Article

In: psyArxiv, 2026.

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Hall, Anna F; Huys, Quentin J. M.

Goal progress shapes hedonic experience Journal Article

In: psyArxiv, 2026.

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Bagdades, Elena; Biria, Marjan; Burman, Charlotte; Delpech, Raphaelle; Huys, Quentin J M; Moses-Payne, Madeleine; Norman, Jessica; Pizzagalli, Diego A.; Spencer, Lucienne; Tromans, Naomi; Singh, Ilina; Leigh, Eleanor; Krebs, Georgina; Stringaris, Argyris

Social Surprises and Feedback Shape Momentary Mood and Anxiety in Humans Journal Article

In: PsyArxiv, 2025.

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