Graduate Thesis Opportunities in Psychiatric Informatics

Psychiatric Informatics
The Kundur (ECE, U of T) and Strauss (Psychiatry, U of T, CAMH) Research Groups have multiple openings for graduate students on a CIHR-funded project related to early relapse detection in youth depression. Our focus is a novel use of digital phenotyping technologies and leading-edge dynamic systems algorithm development in a clinical youth population (age 12-21) for the prediction and secondary prevention of major depressive disorder in youth (MDD-Y). With tested and validated algorithms, the potential exists to create a software agent (app) that would be used by youth and their clinicians to anticipate relapse in real time, for short-term prevention of MDD-Y relapse and improvement of long-term prognosis. More information and application instructions are found here: https://www.comm.utoronto.ca/~dkundur/prospective/.