The Mathematics of Psychiatry | Lawrence Amsel | TEDxHunterCCS

How do the Mathematics of Game Theory and Psychiatry work together? Behavioral Economics has some of the answers. Larry did his undergraduate studies and some graduate work in mathematics, but then switched direction and became a psychiatrist. He has been on the psychiatry faculty of the medical school at Columbia University for over twenty years both as a clinical practitioner and as a researcher. His early research was on suicide prevention which got him very interested in the applications of Decision Sc