What can our genes tell us about mental health and well-being? Mental health problems affect nearly half of the population during their lifetime, but still remain challenging to prevent, detect and treat due to our limited understanding of their etiology. ...

The seminar will be conducted by Associate Professor of Human Geography at the University of Tartu, Kadri Leetmaa, and Lecturer in Cognitive and School Psychology, Triin Liin. Digital transformation has fundamentally changed the way how society functions. Digital life is ...

„When cooperation with the university is not possible in ensuring the scientific basis of preventive intervention, how can the practical and academic common ground be created? It is possible to buy in expert assessment as a service, but it is ...

I will share my thinking about and experiences with using behavioral sciences to change behavior.

The first part of the presentation focuses on why developmental psychologists recommend limiting children’s screen time and whether infants should avoid using screen devices altogether. The second part discusses how to measure motivation and what is the role of motivation ...

Healthcare data has traditionally been collected and stored by medical professionals. Decisions concerning a person's health are made based on this data. In the digital age, health data are stored in various healthcare institutions' databases. In Estonia, for example, the ...

In the presentation, I will introduce the research and recent findings of our team in the field of measuring brain biopotentials. It turns out that these psychobiological signals reflect ongoing information processing, human states, and sometimes even some of our ...

The treatment of mental health problems is related to how psychopathology is diagnosed. As people rarely fit into a single diagnostic category in terms of their symptoms and mental disorders often co-occur, alternative models have been developed alongside traditional categorical ...

Which illnesses are more common among people with low well-being? Are these associations causal? Let’s go one step back and look at the causes of well-being, such as a person’s physical environment, income, occupation, unemployment, educational and social resources, experience ...

Mental health and wellbeing is not just an individual condition, but is shaped by a combination of social relationships, structural health support and community functioning, among other factors. A problem- and diagnosis-centred approach to mental health focuses too much on ...