Toward Precision Mental Health with AI: Brain-Behavior Representations and Foundation Models

Wednesday, August 26, 2026, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Clark Center, Palo Alto, CA

Mental disorders are highly heterogeneous and often comorbid, challenging conventional diagnosis and individualized treatment. In this talk, Dr. Yu Zhang will present recent work on dimensional brain-behavior frameworks that use contrastive machine learning to identify neurobiological markers and transdiagnostic subtypes from large-scale neuroimaging data. Dr. Zhang will also introduce a brain graph foundation model that integrates graph transformer pretraining with prompt-based adaptation to generalize across brain atlases, disorders, datasets, and tasks. Together, these advances highlight the potential of representation learning for precision mental health, supporting improved diagnosis and prognosis.

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AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), APA Continuing Education credits (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

1. Describe how AI can combine brain imaging and behavioral data to identify patterns across mental health conditions.
2. Explain how dimensional and transdiagnostic approaches differ from traditional diagnosis-based models.
3. Identify potential uses of AI-based brain models for improving diagnosis, prognosis, and personalized mental health care.

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