Transdiagnostic Intervention Lab
The Transdiagnostic Intervention Lab studies attention and builds treatments around it. Difficulties with attention turn up across a wide range of mental health conditions, which is why we treat attention as a shared target rather than as something specific to any one diagnosis. Our work ranges from basic questions about how people look at the world through to full clinical trials of the interventions we develop, and we deliver those interventions through whatever technology reaches people best.
What we work on
Interventions for what conditions have in common
Most treatments are built around a single diagnosis. We build ours around the processes that several diagnoses share, attention chief among them, and then test whether changing that process actually changes how someone feels.
Technology that reaches people where they are
Not everyone who needs treatment can get to a clinic. We develop and test interventions delivered through telehealth, virtual and augmented reality, self-guided internet programs, and eye tracking, and we care as much about whether people will keep using something as we do about whether it works in a trial.
Careful use of large language models and generative AI
These models are already being used in mental health settings, often without much evidence behind them. We test where they genuinely improve assessment and where they fall short, and we publish the answer either way.