APS

2026 APS Annual Convention

Beyond the Static: Mapping Mental Health through Innovations In Dynamic Time-Series Approaches

Friday, May 29, 2026 · Barcelona, Spain

Oral · Mental Health in Focus: Symptoms, Support & Intervention

Mental health disorders are inherently dynamic with temporally evolving symptoms. Traditional research methods struggle to capture these fluctuations, limiting their ability to inform real-time, personalized treatments. This symposium presents innovative research applying state-of-the-art time-series and machine learning methodologies to attain deeper insights into the temporal patterns underlying mental health disorders

Chairs & Discussants

  • Joshua CurtissChair
    Northeastern University

Presentations

  1. Predicting the Peaks and Valleys: Personalized Affective Forecasting In Emotional DisordersShane Pracar
  2. The Emotional Core of Grief: Leveraging Intensive Longitudinal Data to Investigate the Nature, Dynamics, and Cognitive and Behavioral Correlates of Yearning and Emotional PainDonald Robinaugh
  3. The Influence of State Dynamics and Personality In Predicting Thought and Affect States with Intensive Longitudinal DataEric Andrews
  4. Back to the Basics: Limitations of Idiographic Machine Learning Forecasting In Mental Health DataSophie Engels