Advanced Biopsychosocial Simulation for Harmful Adolescent Behaviour

Introduction

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.

Framework Development

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
• Delinquency

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).

Proposed Proof of Concept

In the proposed proof of concept, we aim to build a computational infrastructure on this framework, creating a fully digitized toolkit that can benefit from digital automation, communication, and artificial intelligence methods.

Central Strategy

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.

Future Implications

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