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Sarah Yip, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Biography

Dr. Yip is the Director of the Yale Imaging and Psychopharmacology (YIP) research group at Yale School of Medicine. Her work uses neurocomputational research methods to identify the underlying biological mechanisms of addictions and other psychiatric disorders. Dr. Yip’s work has been funded by multiple NIH institutes, including NIDA, NIAAA and NIMH, as well as by international funders such as the UK’s Medical Research Council, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Beijing Normal University. Ongoing NIH-funded projects include connectivity-based analyses of large developmental neuroimaging datasets and collection of cross-sectional and densely sampled neuroimaging data from individuals in treatment for opioid-use disorder. Together with Drs. Christopher Pittenger and Godfrey Pearlson, Dr. Yip is also the MPI of a recently funded $20 million U01 award at Yale, as part of NIH’s Individually Measured Phenotypes to Advance Computational Translation in Mental Health (IMPACT-MH) initiative. This project will recruit and longitudinally phenotype a transdiagnostic sample of 2,400 individuals using a combination of computational behavioral tasks, natural language processing and clinical assessments.

Last Updated on September 18, 2025.

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Education & Training

PhD
University of Oxford, Psychiatry (2013)
MSc
University College London, Psychodynamic Developmental Neuroscience (2008)
BA
New York University, Psychology (2006)

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