The mDOT Center (funded by NIH’s P41 Program) is hosting the Brain Meets mHealth: Visioning Workshop on Optimizing Interventions Leveraging Brain, Behavior, and Physiology Interactions in the Natural Field Environment. This event will take place on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 in Salt Lake City, UT.

Registration is required.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from neuroscience, behavioral science and AI with mHealth experts from the mDOT Center to explore how recent advances in generative AI, foundation models, and digital twins can be used to develop a new unified framework to link brain, behavior, and physiology in people’s natural environment, to design and optimize the next generation of treatments and interventions.

Over the past fifteen years, mHealth has evolved from sensing and sense-making to triggering just-in-time interventions. AI-powered mHealth biomarkers derived from wearables are now being used by health researchers to discover and optimize the timing and content of behavioral interventions. Improving our understanding of the complex interactions between the brain, behavior, and physiology can help us maximize the efficacy and longevity of interventions targeted at behavior modifications.

Recent advances in mobile, wearable, and implantable sensing platforms (EEG/iEEG, fNIRS, IMU, ECG, PPG) make it possible to capture detailed information about the brain, behavior, and physiology in more naturalistic settings than traditional methods. Combining signals relating brain activity with continuous observation of physiology and behaviors via mHealth biomarkers captured by wearables in a new unified framework can enable the research community to link dynamic brain activity with observed changes in physiology and behaviors. In parallel, rapid progress in generative AI techniques and foundation models have, for the first time, made it possible to learn and exploit links between seemingly disparate data sources from multiple domains across different time scales and modalities. This, combined with digital twins, offers a potential to model brain, body, behavior interactions for data-informed decision-making under uncertainties inherent to the natural environment.

For more information please head to the mDOT Center website’s Workshop page:
https://mdotcenter.org/news-events/events/mhealth-meets-brain-workshop/