Advanced Biopsychosocial Simulation for Harmful Adolescent Behaviour

We, the LIFECOURSE team, have been developing a theoretical framework that combines biological, social, and psychological data into unified concepts over the past five years.

We now have a combined biopsychosocial data framework that can be used to uncover and understand biosocial causal pathways to adolescent behaviour, including self-harm, suicide, substance-use, and delinquancy.

To our knowledge, we possess the only linkage of high-quality biological, environmental, and social data across several developmental stages of life to matched longitudinal data (N=4000).

In the proposed proof of concept we propose to build a computational infrastructure on this framework, creating a fully digitized toolkit that can benefit from digital automation, communication, and artificial intelligence methods. At the center of this strategy is a new detailed biopsychosocial computer simulation model.

This first stage of development a proof of concept will already bring our data beyond current capabilities.

We see this work as a necessary next step, taking the LIFECOUSE project beyond the state-of-the-art once again, with several fundamental implications and broad industrial, societal, and scientific impact.