Welcome to the 21st WCP Virtual Congress Program Scheduling

Systematic searching of new biomarkers in psychiatry is one of the most relevant global initiatives in studying mental disorders worldwide. These initiatives are well integrated by the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), which incorporate a significant repertoire of behavioral and cognitive patterns exhibited by humans (constructs/subconstructs) grouped in different levels of neurobiological evidence (units of analyses). Most biomarkers are expensive, invasive, and restricted in Latin-American countries (LAC). Here, we presented a group of significant researches promoted by three different LAC groups (Colombia, Argentina, Chile) focused on developing new fine-grained strategies based on RDoC approaches to capture implicit and explicit neurocognitive markers to improve diagnosis and progression of mental disorders. Notably, in a first talk will be presented an approach of inter-cognition based on social cognitive and affective neuroscience to provide precise correlates of different psychiatric conditions. A second talk will present a combined RDoC and enactive psychiatry approach to reveal significant fine-grained cognitive deviations, including mental time travel and embodied cognitive markers in patients with mental disorders and frontotemporal dementia. A third talk shows a functional magnetic resonance imaging approach to assess cognitive and emotional regulation in unipolar and bipolar depression. Finally, it will be presented different computational approaches using machine learning, deep neural networks, and structural equation models to study different forms of human violence in a large group of ex-members of illegal armed groups in Colombia (N = 26,349) and to study the significant predictors of subsyndromal mental symptoms in a population-based study (N=2989).