Two areas I think are most promising off the top of my head (held lightly)
Continuing connectome work with advanced meditators. This kind of research has been ongoing at various institutes for the last decade. It would be nice to get a consistent pipeline of funding to enable less stop-start.
Triaging of people into mental health interventions. By paying too much attention to mean effect size in aggregates of treatment populations we are potentially ignoring large effect sizes in restricted treatment populations. Gathering data on outcome distribution shapes and attempting to do some hypothesis exploration on what hidden features are making certain people high responders to certain interventions could be incredibly high returns.
Two areas I think are most promising off the top of my head (held lightly)
Continuing connectome work with advanced meditators. This kind of research has been ongoing at various institutes for the last decade. It would be nice to get a consistent pipeline of funding to enable less stop-start.
Triaging of people into mental health interventions. By paying too much attention to mean effect size in aggregates of treatment populations we are potentially ignoring large effect sizes in restricted treatment populations. Gathering data on outcome distribution shapes and attempting to do some hypothesis exploration on what hidden features are making certain people high responders to certain interventions could be incredibly high returns.
I would definitely endorse these.