Alan Anticevic PhD

Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry; Administrative Director, NIAAA Center for the Translational Neuroscience of Alcoholism

Biographical Info

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.

International Activity

• Applications of functional connectivity to the study of 1st episode psychosis with Dr. Fei Wang
  China (2012 - 2013)
  This collaborative project with Dr. Fei Wang focuses on applications of functional connectivity to the study of 1st episode psychosis and individuals during more chronic phases of the illness.
• Simulation studies of global-based functional connectivity: dealing with individual variability in connectivity patterns
  Ljubljana, Slovenia (2010)
  Ongoing method development collaboration.

Education & Training

M.A.

Washington University School of Medicine, St.Louis (2007)

Ph.D.

Washington University in St. Louis (2011)

Ph.D.

Washington University School of Medicine, St.Louis (2011)

Honors & Recognition

• Yale University-wide search - NIH Director’s Early Independence Award Nominee
  Yale University (2011)
• 2012 NIH Director's Early Independence Award ($1.25 million total direct costs)
  NIH (2012)
• International Congress on Schizophrenia Research - Young Investigator Award.
  International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (2012)
• Cold Spring Harbor Computational & Cognitive Neurobiology Workshop Fellowship
  Cold Spring Harbor (2011)
• NARSAD Young Investigator Award (Mentor: John H. Krystal, M.D.)
  Brain and Behavior Research Fund (2012)
• James Hudson Brown-Alexander B. Coxe Research Fellowship in Medical Sciences
  Yale University (2011)