Suggest best book as an introduction to computational neuroscience

2 BiasedBayes 26 April 2016 09:16PM

Im trying to find a best place to start learning the field. I have no special math background. Im very eager to learn. Thanks alot!

 

Nature publishes an article about alternative therapy

1 BiasedBayes 19 October 2015 05:07PM

Very interesting decision from the one of the leading scientific publications to publish an article about Reiki therapy.

http://www.nature.com/news/consider-all-the-evidence-on-alternative-therapies-1.18547


[Edit: should be Nature publishes an article about alternative therapy]

Help with relevant rational decision making research ideas

1 BiasedBayes 25 September 2015 05:46PM

Im researching rational medical decision making and trying to find right angles to approach the subject of probabilistic decision making in medicine.

My first paper will be about the probability updating after the medical tests when we know the prevalence of the patients possible disease and the tests sensitivity and specificity.
Second paper will be (at the moment) about the decision to test if we have certain treatment treshold and know the prevalence of the disease and the tests sensitivity and specifity.

So im reasearching how well the descriptive medical decision making (usually intuitive) matches the normative ideal when in the decision making situation we have all the available info to actually calculate the best action.

If you have some ideas regarding this topic I would love to hear them. Thanks a lot!