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Dr. Alan Anticevic trained in Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis where he worked with Drs. Deanna Barch and David Van Essen. Following his graduate training, Dr. Anticevic completed his internship in Clinical Neuropsychology at Yale University. Following internship, he joined the Yale University Department of Psychiatry as research faculty working closely with Dr. John Krystal.

Broadly, his research interests are centered on cognitive neuroscience of psychiatric illness as well as functional neuroimaging analysis methodology. Specifically, Dr. Anticevic is interested in characterizing brain circuits involved in processing affective stimuli and their interaction with neural systems involved in goal-directed cognitive operations such as working memory, with the focus on understanding how these interactions may go awry in the context of different neuropsychiatric illness (e.g. schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and substance abuse). Methodologically, his research harnesses the combination of task-based, resting-state, pharmacological functional neuroimaging, as well as computational modeling approaches to mechanistically understand neural circuit dysfunction in disorders such as schizophrenia.

Dr. Aleksandar Savic received his medical degree from the University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Croatia. After finishing his clinical internship he completed his residency in psychiatry at the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapce, Zagreb, where he currently holds the position of an attending psychiatrist at the Department of Diagnostics And Intensive Care. Currently he also holds a teaching position at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Zagreb School of Medicine as an assistant. Dr. Savic was awarded the Fulbright scholarship as a visiting researcher at the Yale University Department of Psychiatry, with the groups of Dr. John Krystal, Dr. Alan Anticevic and Dr. Philip Corlett.

Stemming from his clinical work, his primary areas of research interest are psychotic disorders, depersonalization phenomenon in mental disorders, and dementia, but include also forensic psychiatry issues and psychiatry residents training. While at Yale University Dr. Savic is involved in pharmacological functional neuroimaging studies focused on understanding cognitive deficits in schizophrenia and affective processing in depression (in collaboration with the Esterlis Group).