Wan-Ling Tseng, PhD

Dr. Wan-Ling Tseng is an Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in the Section on Mood Dysregulation and Neuroscience at the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Tseng is committed to a long-term career as a developmental affective neuroscientist conducting innovative and collaborative research focused on irritability and related symptoms. Her research program, currently funded by her NIH Director's New Innovator Award (DP2), aims to delineate mechanisms and predictors of chronic irritability across multiple levels of analysis from neural circuits, physiology, behaviors, social experiences (e.g., peer interactions), to familial and environmental factors and across development. In addition to the New Innovator Award, Dr. Tseng’s work has been recognized by other prestigious awards and organizations including the NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00), Society of Biological Psychiatry Travel Award, Career Development Institute for Bipolar Disorder, NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence, NIMH OFT Trainee Travel Award, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Travel Award, Doris Duke Fund to Retain Clinical Scientists, and Charles H. Hood Foundation Child Health Research Award.